NetFreedom Pioneers built Toosheh, a system that piggybacks data onto free-to-air satellite TV signals using MPEG transport streams to deliver uncensored news, software, and educational content into Iran during internet blackouts. During the January 2026 shutdown — when connectivity dropped to near zero amid mass protests and thousands of deaths — Toosheh distributed opposition statements, first-aid guides, and anticensorship tools to millions. The system is receive-only (making users untraceable), costs users nothing, and scales to entire continents without added cost. To counter satellite jamming, NFP applies RAID-like redundancy, increasing error-correction overhead to 25–30% during active interference. Funded partly by the U.S. State Department until 2025, the project now relies on private donors. NFP is also expanding Toosheh with intelligent content curation, local Wi-Fi redistribution, and educational deployments for Afghanistan.
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