Iran’s 70% of the youth regularly use software to dodge government filters designed to block access to sites such as Facebook and YouTube, according to Iranian Centre for Research and Strategic Studies. Its director, Mohammad Taqi Hassanzadeh, said:
Of the 67.4 percent of Iranian young people who use the internet, 19.1% use the net for chatting, 15.3% for the social media, 15.2% for games and fun-surfing, and 10.4% use the World Wide Web for scientific researches. 50.1% of the participants [in the survey] were male and the remaining 49.9% were females.
Hassanzadeh added that less than 5% of the Iranian youths use the net to surf pornographic sites and 12.3% also use it to download movies, pictures, and music. Tehran Times reports.
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