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Re: Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

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Post by FilosofumRex »

amir734jj wrote: post #210
FilosofumRex wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that would make it much more suspicious the protests are being orchestrated from outside by CIA/Mossad... The "regime" is a republic with regularly held presidential (8 presidents in 45 years) and parliamentary elections. What would you like to replace it with? Monarchy

I would like people not to get killed when they protest I would like the internet not to get shut down during the protest Am I asking too much?

No, it's just exactly what CIA/Mossad are asking for, too - you're in good company

Re: Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

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Post by themafia »

switchbak wrote: post #88
uyzstvqs wrote: post #37

Can't wait for a certain dictator to get a cellmate, so that our Persian and Kurdish friends can have freedom, including free unrestricted internet access. And for fellow HN users from there, here's some great stuff: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ https://bitchat.free/

Sure, a US invasion of Iran would undoubtedly lead to good things. And how can you say the Kurds are friends of the USA (I'm presuming you mean friends of the USA) given how many times they've been abandoned? Just take a look at what happened to Libya, sometimes removing a "bad person" will cause a far worse situation to evolve. Like literal human slavery. I will never cease to be amazed at the amnesia that arises wh…

> a US invasion of Iran would undoubtedly lead to good things.

I think their neighbor would disagree.

> sell a war to the people.

If you have to sell the war, then you have no business conducting it.

Re: Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

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Post by qbit42 »

cramsession wrote: post #228
qbit42 wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did shut down the Internet. I cannot communicate with some Iranian friends right now.

That doesn’t mean Iran did that. Israel has been preparing to attack Iran again, and cyberattacks on their internet are a pretty obvious first step.

I see. You seem quite sure that Iran is not doing this - do you have some local source of information? My friends there said the government does shut down the internet at times (but I am not currently in communication with them...)

Re: Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

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Post by graemep »

logicchains wrote: post #132
ithkuil wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently a lot of people in the west too are assuming that these protests are fueled by the west. At least that's the most likely explanation for why so many left leaning youth are not supporting Iranians while supporting Palestine. Apparently the fight is not about freedom but about (perceived) whiteness vs non-whiteness

>Apparently the fight is not about freedom but about (perceived) whiteness vs non-whiteness But the Iranians are white. The name Iran is literally derived from "Aryan".

Aryan does not equal white.

Definitions of race are very culturally dependent. A few decades ago South Asians were regarded as caucasian (I have an American encyclopedia published in the 1950s that says so), a century earlier so were some East Africans (Somalis IIRC). The current western definition of white does not include them.

Similarly the current American definition of black includes people most of the rest of the world would not consider black - we sometimes have to be told that some people identify as "black" (what Americans call passing as white).

Re: Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

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Post by octoberfranklin »

bhhaskin wrote: post #163
Noaidi wrote: post #155

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Destroy the satellites? I mean all that have to do is screw up the trajectory of some of the satellites to cause exponential collisions...

Iran does not have that capability. But that would also be an act of war.

Flinging spacejunk pollution into orbit is extremely simple if you have rockets.

Iran has lots of rockets.

Iran also has basically zero of their own satellites in orbit that they care about.

Spacejunk is a highly asymmetric tactic.

Re: Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

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Post by xenospn »

cramsession wrote: post #200
xenospn wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate? How exactly is this being generated? Where are the videos and images coming from? Is the Zionist propaganda also blocking all internet in Iran?

This is a good account for coverage: https://x.com/AryJeay/status/2009336400198484306 Some protests are also pro Iranian government, but being framed as anti: https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2009148051663815165 And this was Tel Aviv two days ago: https://x.com/ZahraHamidia/status/2008620128351715644 Much bigger protests in Israel, but without the propaganda spin and artificial reach.

Nice accounts you got there. Obvious trolling.

Re: Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

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Post by keybored »

switchbak wrote: post #88
uyzstvqs wrote: post #37

Can't wait for a certain dictator to get a cellmate, so that our Persian and Kurdish friends can have freedom, including free unrestricted internet access. And for fellow HN users from there, here's some great stuff: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ https://bitchat.free/

Sure, a US invasion of Iran would undoubtedly lead to good things. And how can you say the Kurds are friends of the USA (I'm presuming you mean friends of the USA) given how many times they've been abandoned? Just take a look at what happened to Libya, sometimes removing a "bad person" will cause a far worse situation to evolve. Like literal human slavery. I will never cease to be amazed at the amnesia that arises wh…

All correct. But something needs to be frontloaded.

1. Even if removing would be good for that country, that doesn’t give some other state the right to do it. We let these entities get away with murder because they are our friends and they have the biggest guns, that’s it.

2. Always interrogate the real reasons why a state is doing it.

Now only after that we get to the facts like all those times it ended horribly for the people that was supposed to help.

Re: Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

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Post by octoberfranklin »

some_bird wrote: post #218
Noaidi wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Destroy the satellites? I mean all that have to do is screw up the trajectory of some of the satellites to cause exponential collisions...

Ah yes, Kessler's space shredder, something to be feared by all satellites! It appears that we are very close to an unstoppable runaway process of collisions in space. On one hand, nice that we prevent rich guys from running away to other planets after ruining this one. On the other hand, a lot of services require GPS, it would be chaos if that were to disappear...

GPS is in geosynchronous orbit, insanely far from the Earth's surface.

You can't get chain-reaction collisions to happen at such an outrageously high orbit. That amount of mass you'd have to put into orbit is just insane. It's like trying to crash the moon.

Re: Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout

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Post by octoberfranklin »

esafak wrote: post #209
bombcar wrote: post #153

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The key is that the 99% can transfer data and such internally to the country; the 0.1% can then leak it out.

How effectively can they share data domestically during blackouts?

Carrier pigeons.

And hamsters.

Don't underestimate the hamsters.

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