Without consistent internet access, the Iranian people are being buried alive. The Iranian government will continue to demolish this ancient culture, this modern country, and the Iranian people with no accountability on the world stage. Iranians are screaming for help, and we cannot hear them. 

We must create and maintain channels by which they can share their brave acts of protest and document the inhumanity of the Islamic Regime.

We are calling on the following organizations to decide whether they support the Iranian people or the Iranian government:

1. We want  Meta's Oversight Board to allow videos and posts from Iranian protesters, no matter how violent or ‘offensive’ to the regime. All of Meta’s subsidiaries, including Instagram and Whatsapp, must amplify the Iranian people’s voices. In light of the Oversight Board’s request for comment, we insist that it is in the public interest to allow all posts relating to the protests in Iran. We encourage all allies of the Iranian people to leave a public comment for Meta in support of Iranian political content.
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   Other connectivity providers and search engines — whether Google, Jigsaw, Starlink, or other major tech companies — can make the virtual visibility of the Iranian people a greater priority. We would like you to use your unparalleled capacity for innovation to defy censorship, rather than unwittingly enable it. Use the extraordinary amount of technical talent and capital at your disposal to do anything, however small, to assist the Iranian people, who until recently, were your users and customers. 

To censor the Iranian people, by not extending every possible platform, is to turn off the lights while the regime beats them into silence and submission. Iranian expats across the world, and their allies, call on you to do whatever you can with the freedom and abundant resources available to you.

We applaud companies like Proton, Signal, and Tor for helping the Iranian people set up VPNs and other means of communicating with the world at-large. Your bravery and ingenuity will be remembered.

We are requesting that people everywhere:

1. Help Iranians access Signal by setting up Signal Proxies.
2. Install the Snowflake browser to help the hundreds of thousands of Iranians who’ve recently joined Tor continue to use the service without disruptions. It takes half an hour to set up a short-lived proxy to make sure Iranian protesters are heard around the world.
3. Show your support to the team at Proton, who are developing new protocols to bypass advanced censorship mechanisms. 

These actions have little to no cost to those of us in free societies. If Iranian children and teenagers are fearless enough to boldly protest on Iranian streets, we should remember we have no cause for apathy or fear.

Iranians have a a big voice in Silicon Valley. We know all too well that no one chooses whether to be born into a free or censored society. We will lift up the voices of Iranian protesters, and we will remember and thank those who stood by our side.