I am an Iranian M.S. student currently living in Tehran. Government is blocking social media platforms used for arranging (and reading about) peaceful protests. help me breach it. (more below)

Hey all, this is my 1st post and i just made this account to call upon whomever i can for help.

As some of you might know, since 1979's Iranian revolution or "specially" since 4 days ago when the protests began, Iranian government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is trying really hard to silence the people's voices. Either by showing the world footage of a select few hundred people chanting "Death to America", or by limiting and blocking our access to anywhere we can talk freely, and not fear the consequences.

There's this messaging app which is HUGE in Iran with more than 40 million users, the Telegram app. Now i understand security margins for Telegram are rather thin, but a "secret chat" with End-to-End encryption could mean the difference between living your life and not being fearful if you said a thing or two, or being taken away by IRGC and being harshly tortured and interrogated. not to mention public channels of telegram in which you can anonymously read about news etc.

One thing to mention is since this movement doesn't really have a leader and every Iranian protester has decided to come to streets on their own, I don't see myself as being unimportant and unimpactful anymore. Nobody's bound to follow strict guidelines on "how" or "what" to protest for, so if I'm self educated regarding humanities science or if i have a small group of friends with some nice ideas about how to make things less violent, I MATTER, and people actually listen to(and debate about) my (and other people's) ideas.

And as I've already said, I'm not a fan of people getting angrier or the protests getting more harsh and unpredictable. So i try to do what i can, to bypass the blockage using different methods, and expressing my opinions on how to make it work without much violence, or how to create change without being shot(sadly, nearly 15 protestors have already died). But I largely fail at being able to even access Twitter or Telegram. I've been trying out different programs to bypass the blockage, I've since tried: Hotspot(blocked), Psiphon3(VERY slow, what I'm using right now at around 7am for higher speed), Tor(doesn't work), Lantern(doesn't work).

One thing to mention is that psiphon3 -being nearly the only functioning one- is very suspicious to me, specially since the government is advertising THEIR OWN VPN (lol) and i know that it's being monitored so logically i can't trust that(duh).

So can you help me by suggesting safe programs or VPNs i can use both on my cell-phone and laptop? I'll surely pass the information on to my friends so they can have safe and free access to the internet too.

P.S. If anyone has any questions regarding Iran's situation I'd be glad to clarify. P.P.S I was advised by a mod to move my post to this subreddit.

Me: I'm studying M.S. in a rather high-tech major in Tehran, which (I later found out that) there are no job opportunities for, except working for the government or IRGC, on non-civil projects which i hate.

TL;DR: Help me breach net blockage in Iran by suggesting safe programs or VPNs so i can have a voice in Telegram or Twitter and try to make things less aggressive and suggest methods of peaceful protesting.

Submitted January 02, 2018 at 12:54PM by WhyAmIBornHere http://ift.tt/2lFFCoS