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The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report

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Re: The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report

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This is difficult to read. The author confuses nouns and proper nouns and isn't clear about who it is they're referring to (who are the neo-liberals, for instance?).

I understand that not everyone is as good at writing as others, but it really doesn't take much effort to ask someone to proofread.

Otherwise, this is a good start, even though it lacks details and examples.

Re: The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report

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Pretty crazy that a country can just completely block all internet outside of what they want to be accessible... One app that came to my mind reading this is Briar [1] - no real internet required, can connect to other briar participants via bluetooth and WiFi. Sadly only for Android...

[1] https://briarproject.org

Re: The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report

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Pretty crazy that a country can just completely block all internet outside of what they want to be accessible... One app that came to my mind reading this is Briar [1] - no real internet required, can connect to other briar participants via bluetooth and WiFi. Sadly only for Android... [1] https://briarproject.org

It's not crazy, internet is like public roads, they can decide to close them anytime they want.

Re: The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report

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post #2

This is difficult to read. The author confuses nouns and proper nouns and isn't clear about who it is they're referring to (who are the neo-liberals, for instance?). I understand that not everyone is as good at writing as others, but it really doesn't take much effort to ask someone to proofread. Otherwise, this is a good start, even though it lacks details and examples.

Conceptually, it was interesting. I can forgive it for lacking details, as a "preliminary report", too.

But the whole, "neo-liberal arses" bit gave it the sense of an unhinged author or untrustworthy narrator.

Re: The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report

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I almost stopped reading at "neo-liberal", man that term is getting boring, especially when used in non-sequitur fashion like "The most severe disruption is when the regime turns off all cell towers and all local Internet. They just pull the plug and it's game over for any neo-liberal smart-arse that thinks v2ray/tor/shadowsocks is the solution". WTF does that even mean? What does the author think it means?
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