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Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

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Re: Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

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Post by wewxjfq »

wartywhoa23 wrote: post #75
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean... EU already blocks eg. some russian sites (some countries more effectively than others)... plus all the chat control pressures every year. Spain is blocking whole blocks of internet during football matches. UK is making you "show your ID card" to jerk off. But every such country likes pointing fingers at others, "hey, our censorship is not bad, they have more of it!". edit: considering the downvotes, HN is n…

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Your upvotes are issued by sheep and wolf in sheep's clothing telling you to not censor propaganda from a country that's been waging war against you.

Re: Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

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Post by derektank »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #85
gambutin wrote: post #41

I’m curious if it’s possible to somehow retrieve the whitelist to see who’s on it?

Mossad is curious as well. They might want to indiscriminately make people's devices blow up in public again.

There are a lot of words one could use to describe the Israeli pager attack on Hezbollah, but indiscriminate isn’t one that leaps to mind, particular when compared against other contemporary military strikes

Re: Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

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Post by adrianwaj »

kumarvvr wrote: post #87

Good luck trying to take something back from the populace once already given for decades, even if it is in a limited form. It's a desperate attempt, that really shows how cornered the administration is. Any power that fears information, has to have a highly fine grained, high level control of information to maintain power. This is absolutely difficult, in a country as culturally diverse and with a long history as Ira…

It not just information, but capital (crypto) - think prediction markets and their influence:

https://polymarket.com/event/khamenei-out-as-supreme-leader-...

"In addition to the central bank, it seems as though regular Iranians are seeking the perceived safety of cryptocurrencies as unrest disrupts the country and the economy collapses."

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/21/iran-s-central-...

Re: Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

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Post by Nursie »

roenxi wrote: post #81
Nursie wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems to happen a lot. The UK is doing some shitty stuff and a man was arrested for wearing a “Plasticine Action” t-shirt a few weeks ago, “Palestine Action” being a proscribed group in the UK, and showing support being an offence. When the mistake was realised he was released after a few hours with an apology. These things are objectively terrible, shouldn’t be happening. The UK government is under popular and…

The people complaining probably live in the UK or are related to it somehow. Then it would make sense that they are more worried about authoritarianism in the UK rather than in South America. And even if the man was wearing a proper "Palestine Action" shirt that'd still be pretty concerning. It is an insane stretch to say that wearing a shirt represents a matter for police action. How far the world has moved on from…

The people complaining were American AFAICT and weren’t worried by either, they were just drawing hyperbolic equivalences between suppression of speech and state orchestrated mass kidnapping and murder.

Re: Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

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Post by dist-epoch »

littlecranky67 wrote: post #59

There must be so much video footage from smartphones during the demonstations that show gruesome killings and masacres, the iranian elites have to make sure this footage never sees the rest of the world. They have to ban the internet forever.

Nah, just for a year or so, after they will say all the footage is "AI generated".
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