Instagram filter has put 400 thousand businesses on the verge of destruction

The Tehran E-commerce Association announced in a statement that the Instagram filter has destroyed 400,000 businesses and will endanger the livelihood of more than 1 million people.

During the last week, the Ministry of Communications imposed severe restrictions on access to the international Internet, and many foreign platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were also filtered. In a situation where whispers of constant Instagram filtering are heard, the Tehran Electronic Commerce Association announced by publishing a statement that Instagram filtering will cause the destruction of 400,000 businesses.

Destruction of 400 thousand businesses with Instagram filter

In this statement, the Tehran Electronic Commerce Association criticized the restrictions recently imposed on the international internet and announced that more than 400,000 businesses are operating on Instagram and filtering this popular social network will directly affect the livelihood of about 1 million people. put.

The text of the statement of Tehran Electronic Commerce Association is as follows:

The Tehran E-Commerce Association, while expressing its condolences for the loss of a group of our compatriots in the recent protests, expresses its impression of these incidents. Now that we are once again experiencing the blade of internal sanctions (filtering) in cyber space, we are more than ever worried about the future of the e-commerce industry in the country. The Electronics Association knows its duty to express its objection to the filtering and restrictions imposed on the Internet and social networks, in line with the opinion of the majority of the member companies of this organization.

Restricting the Internet and social networks causes heavy damages to businesses, especially small and home-based businesses. Interrupting access to Instagram has put more than 400,000 businesses at risk of destruction and the livelihood of more than 1 million people with serious problems.

Filtering of social networks, forced dealings with the users of this space and dozens of other wrong decisions, not only the ax hit the root of the country’s e-commerce, which this time created a wave of dissatisfaction among the personnel of companies and technology businesses and caused a strike of some of the employees of this Companies have been

We believe that the decision-making method regarding Internet management will cause an irreversible impact on the digital economy, destroy the remaining hope among experts and make the country’s elites’ migration path smoother. Therefore, this association considers the decision-making institutions to be fully responsible for the existing conditions.