Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

Post by changoplatanero » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 7:58 PM UTC

Saris wrote: post #9

rdrd wrote: post #7

I find the wordsmithery on Meta's statement the most interesting: “We do not track your *PRECISE* location, we don’t keep logs of who everyone is messaging and we do not track the *PERSONAL* messages people are sending one another," it added. “We do not provide *BULK* information to any government.”

If you read around their points, it sounds like they track general location, log group messages, and provide specific information on request to a government.

Post by msgodel » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 8:00 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #12

ty6853 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Iraq and Gaza was an absolute joke compared to what it would take to topple the Iranian militants, militias, and government. Much of the terrain is similar to Afghanistan. Tribal islamic alliances are resilient against loss of central governance. There is a massive porous mountainous border to 2+ countries that conceivably will look the other way for certain islamic militants. I know everyone wants to gobble down the…

> Iraq and Gaza was an absolute joke compared to what it would take to topple the Iranian militants, militias, and government It wouldn't be a cake walk. But America could topple the government in Tehran about as easily as it did in Baghdad or, frankly, Kabul. The problem in Iraq and Afghanistan wasn't a failure to decapitate the opposing state. It was in filling the vacuum that left.

Post by NitpickLawyer » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 8:01 PM UTC

rdrd wrote: post #7

I find the wordsmithery on Meta's statement the most interesting: “We do not track your *PRECISE* location, we don’t keep logs of who everyone is messaging and we do not track the *PERSONAL* messages people are sending one another," it added. “We do not provide *BULK* information to any government.”

Post by Lordarminius » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 8:03 PM UTC

ranger_danger wrote: post #6

Lordarminius wrote: post #4

All the major social media and messaging platforms are compromised and serve as tools for surveillance, so the Iranian government isn't wrong.

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Post by msgodel » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 8:04 PM UTC

rdrd wrote: post #7

I find the wordsmithery on Meta's statement the most interesting: “We do not track your *PRECISE* location, we don’t keep logs of who everyone is messaging and we do not track the *PERSONAL* messages people are sending one another," it added. “We do not provide *BULK* information to any government.”