As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

Post by snovv_crash » Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 6:59 PM UTC

boeingUH60 wrote: post #196

aljgz wrote: post #173

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I'm no longer living in Iran for a few years, so this is based on my close friends' observations, not mine. People are doing their best and the riots are intensifying. But the riot police is using warfare to scatter them and when it does not work, they fire directly into the crowd, killing and wounding many. People have no way to fight back. Sanctions are a serious problem for a SWE who lives in Iran. It's almost imp…

>While I was working in another country, banks were afraid of opening an account for me and eventually gave me an account with no internet banking and no credit card. This is something that gets to me about sanctions. It seems they prevent everyday citizens just wanting to work and live from doing so, while the government elites still get to enjoy themselves because they can easily find ways to circumvent it. What's…

Post by inglor » Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 7:29 PM UTC

codedokode wrote: post #156

scandox wrote: post #69

Slight OT: When I was in Monaco recently the Monaco Telecom network prevented me making or receiving WhatsApp calls. I could message, but no calling. Presumably therefore it is something that the network provider can interfere with effectively.

Could it be that WhatsApp has a mechanism for ISP and telcos to block calls to prevent unnecessary competition? Like Apple has one to prevent using Apple's VPN?

Post by ethotool » Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 7:40 PM UTC

davisoneee wrote: post #194

jimbob45 wrote: post #192

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People are taking my comment out of context. I'm not saying that Israel is 100% for sure behind this. I'm offering an equally likely explanation in response to the individual above who concluded that this was definitely because women randomly decided that they'd had enough. Was it actually Israel? Was it just angry women? Nobody truly knows, least of all me or GP.

There's been a gradual relaxing of adherance to the hijab in Iran for decades, and this year a woman was murdered because of her 'lax' hijab. You are entertaining the idea that this _could_ be an israeli plot, which you don't have evidence for, alongside the idea it's just "angry women". So yes, even _with_ the context, it sounds a lot like you're spouting conspiracy theories behind a veil of "but I'm just asking _'w…

Post by ailef » Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 7:43 PM UTC

adventured wrote: post #200

ailef wrote: post #116

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Euromaidan 2014 overthrew a democratically elected president.

If that had been a democratically elected regime, Ukraine wouldn't be making the stand it is today vs Russia. Ukraine would have immediately folded under popular domestic pressure to give in to / join up with Russia.

Post by marcosdumay » Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 8:14 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #168

marcosdumay wrote: post #153

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You can distribute DNS data over any transport, p2p or not. Ans with DNSSEC, you can trust the contents you get from any transport. Are you concerned with countries forcefully removing entries? Because there are a lot of other country TLDs where you can add your entries if you want.

Virtually everyone relies on ISP DNS servers, which can trivially bypass DNSSEC (DNSSEC collapses down to a single bit in the header on the last hop from server to stub resolver). If all you're trying to do is resist DNS censorship, you can get almost everything you need from using an out-of-country name and DoH, which is universally available, very much unlike DNSSEC.