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As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp
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#112This protest is very different from previous protests. Look it up. Women in Iran are just tired of being oppressed and their movement is an embodiment of feminism. I'm an Iranian and unfortunately this protest hasn't received world wide attention in the news. This is a first time women taking the lead in protesting against this tyrannical regime.
>this protest hasn't received world wide attention in the news
? Its on every news page I have looked up.
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#113I'm a little surprised Whatsapp even works (worked) in Iran, given the US sanctions against the country.
Perhaps it is because the sanctions are financial and WhatsApp does not charge users?
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Normally the government (in this case Iran) contacts the service provider (in this case FB/Whatsapp)and lets them know that unless they self-block their service, the government will do blocking at the network level and might issue fines. Normally, that makes the service provider implement blocks on their end, because then at least they can present the user with a sensible error message, and other services that the go…
There is zero chance that FB/Meta is complicit in this. The occam's razor answer is that the Iranian government has figured out an attack, and a bunch of FB employees are frantically trying to mitigate it instead of reading HN.
I doubt Iran needs to go to the extent of hacking Meta to block a few random users in Italy? They've achieved their main aim of quelling protests by simply blocking at the network level. I'm skeptical about the original bug report.
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A disgusting lie. And at the same time it is simply not a good argument against the unrest even if true. Irans totalitarian regime deserve to face its people.
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#116Let's hope the prosters are successful this time.
Unfortunately, they won’t be. China has been exporting some really amazing surveillance tools to Iran, NK, Russia that make revolutions basically impossible now. When was the last successful overthrow of a despot in a middle income country? Euromaiden 2014?
Euromaidan 2014 overthrew a democratically elected president.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they can't target some particular group then they just shut down the whole thing. This more highlights the problem of systems with a single point of control.
Multiple providers who federate would still not be enough. With some effort one could block every XMPP server, Jami (or Tor) node out there. You would need something like Briar which does mesh networking via Bluetooth.
With "some effort" you can block anything. Encryption is better than open, federated and encrypted is better than centralized and encrypted, federation over a mesh network is better than just federation.
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well if misinformation is causing the protests it's still a good thing. the Iranian people need to free themselves of the regime. wether it is done under false pretenses does not matter, just that it is done.
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That's still enough to be just as angry about. Because the state wanted to lecture a woman on the morality of covering up her hair, she died in a "training center" instead of in bed. Her last moments were of being humiliated for being insufficiently modest.