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Iranian Censorship of Women’s Online Magazines

Although media censorship in Iran is a widely publicized fact, this research report seeks to establish a clearer picture of which women’s online consumer lifestyle titles Iranian web users are currently forbidden to view. This report was conducted using the University of Amsterdam Media Studies Department’s tool called Censorship Explorer. This tool allows users to input URLs and test them against known proxy servers around the world. For this research all available Iranian proxy servers listed in this tool were used although the number varied over the three days of testing in November 2010. The list of nineteen women’s consumer magazine URLs was compiled using Google.com as well as lists from international publishing houses and the researcher’s existing knowledge of the consumer lifestyle magazine market.