Well, they're kinda busy right now getting bombed so I don't think it's a priority now.
Like, sure, at first the blackout was due to repression, yes. But then after a while these two countries started bombing the crap out of Iran, so now it's a slightly different situation.
Let's imagine you have two crackheads smashing your front door: are you gonna be worried about fixing the internet at that very moment?
The Internet isn’t broken it’s turned off
The reason its turned off was because of protests.
But now they get to blame the US for everything.
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Gives the regime a nice scapegoat to help turn the protestors anger at the US and external factors.
The smart thing would have been for the US to quietly back the revolution and provide them with support to overthrow the regime. But here we are.
Trump said they tried this by routing them weapons through the Kurds and the Kurds just kept the weapons.
Weird, I wonder why the people Trump left to die less than a decade ago don't want to help him out??
"i gave weapons to people desperately fighting for survival to give to people desperately fighting for survival. when the didn't enact my vision, i threw a tantrum"
what a fuckin' loser
At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information
..and keep US propaganda and tech Oligarchs out. Any nation that doesn't control its information borders, risk 'regime change' by the US regime..
Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.
Would your country like to join the Internet borg?
hybrid warfare baybee! the northern empires are real good at it! it's just mass media manipulation from the 1930s only this time again
The Internet might just be the only way to call for help.
There are some in the govt with whitelisted SIM cards and dissidents with starlink dishes but that’s it. Most Iranians are trying to get out of the country to get internet access at a risk.
You know, i think i might learn how to set up ad hoc networks to prepare for this sort of thing. I know its essentially wartime there now, but without internet, its harder to transmit the truth from the eyes of the civilians. Fucking sucks whats happening there. Repressive government, but filled with people who simply want a life free of the conflict, the endless battles, various ethnic groups simply wanting freedom from those who have invaded and partitioned their people.
This cant end well. . .
... longest in world history
the world history have appear to forget that the longest there was without internet was literally a few billion years.
Don't be a pendant, you know what they fucking meant.
Edit: actually, it's not even pedantic, it's just wrong. Before the internet existed, there was never an internet shutdown.
Akshually, they have Internet, it's just turned off.
The Internet and infrastructure didn't exist for billions of years, so they couldn't be without something that didn't exists
Wow you are very smart
Pretty sure North Korea does not have internet.
They absolutely have internet.
It's just state controlled. So basically a national child safety lock. But they 100% have access the internet.
Oh they certainly do and pop up in our hosting logs. The main one is a /22, so not very large at all, like a small ISP
It does but not for ordinary citizens. And it wouldnt be a shutdown since the Internet isn't normally available.
I think the US president threatening to wipe the entire country of Iran off the map is a bigger story.
when authoritarians fight, the people lose
ITT: people posting on the internet about something they found out about from the internet saying that an authoritarian regime shutting down the internet because the people under that regime were using it to coordinate resistance efforts is not so bad
sorry, i'd take y'all a lot more seriously if you were having that conversation over ham radio
Fuck heise
Reddit just banned me for a harmless comment..and I’m pissed… anyone wanna talk about this?
Just wanna state that this has been going on since before US involvement. Two dictatirs fighting each other....
Do we know it was actually Iran who shut it down or whether it was the US or Israel who did it instead?
It would be very odd if the US or Israel did it, because this started when Iran wanted to stop communications among citizens who were protesting the government.
TL;DR, yes. It was Iran. It began before the attacks on Iran (back when it was Iran attacking its own people)
Iran shut it down. They were cear about that-
Considering Iran shut the Internet off before the us/Israel attacked due to protests, I'm not sure we'll ever know......
before the us/Israel attacked due to protests
Israel and the US aren't attacking due to the protests. They're attacking because Israel wants to be like Nazi Germany leading up to the world wars and the US wants to help them.
I question whether Iran actually did this because it seems like an extremely convenient timing of events that almost perfectly mimics the "WMDs" the media harped on about for weeks before we invaded Iraq almost like they're following the exact same playbook used in that illegal invasion.
If you read the article you’d know it was the Megatron-led Decepticons.
you can feel their liberation. thanks, US. good guys btw.
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