Editor: Myself

Hossein Derakhshan's take on life — after 6 years of social coma.

Hossein Derakhshan (“Hoder”) is a pioneering Iranian blogger who helped shape the early 2000s Persian blogosphere. His early work focused on internet culture, Iranian politics, and media freedom, but much of that pre-2008 blogging is now fragmented or only partially preserved. After a long prison sentence (2008–2014), he reemerged as a prominent writer of long-form essays about the evolution of the web, platform power, and the decline of the open blogosphere.

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