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.
Fuck heise
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?
you guys are aware trump has already admitted to arming dissidents over there, right?
They always do this untill they decide to turn on them.
mujahideen flashbacks
you guys are aware he’s a serial liar that can’t be trusted?
that’s a common us strategy though.
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??
Art of the Deal ladies and gentlemen!
“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
The Internet isn’t broken it’s turned off
The reason its turned off was because of protests.
Protests armed by the US, per Trump
But now they get to blame the US for everything.
What does my second sentence say, friend?
What does their first sentence say, friend?
What does panda_abyss last letter of their first sentence + second letter of the second to last word of their first sentence + the third letter of the third to last word of their second sentence + the fourth letter of the fourth word of the first sentence say, friend?
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.
… longest in world history
the world history have appear to forget that the longest there was without internet was literally a few billion years.
Wow you are very smart
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
So you’re saying, I am not without a massive penis? I can’t wait to tell my wife.
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.
That article reads like a ChatGPT summary, though I’m not sure if that’s partially due to translation from German or not.
Do we know it was actually Iran who shut it down or whether it was the US or Israel who did it instead?
If you read the article you’d know it was the Megatron-led Decepticons.
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.
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)
It began before the attacks on Iran
Not true. Iranian people have been attacked by murderous US+EU sanctions killing tens of thousands of them every year for decades now. The protests were literally engineered by the US as a form of justification for the war, look at Iranian Rial exchange prices on the months before the protests. Hell, Trump literally admit a few days ago to sending weapons to the “protestors”.
Iran’s government has done plenty to deserve those sanctions. War is wrong no matter which side does it, and Iran is very guilty.
I wish you and your family never have to go through the “deserved sanctions” of the USA and EU, which together murder half a million people yearly since 1975 per latest medical research. I’m sure you don’t believe US citizens should starve to death for the actions of their government.
saddly nobody has found a better option. Iran has had particularly evil leaders for decades. (Why is interesting history itself - but not relavant to today)
Sure, and Iran isn’t under a regime now, right? They shut down the internet because they didn’t like what was said over it.
“Under a regime” lmao you should read a bit
Iran shut it down. They were cear about that-
