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The Russians are themselves heavy users of starlink.
Can you provide a source for this claim?
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The Russians are themselves heavy users of starlink.
Can you provide a source for this claim?
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I gave this a skim and a keyword search. Note that I'm not familiar with the matter. The article claims that the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar that kicked off in 2017 has been substantively fueled by Facebook propaganda efforts, with strong links to Myanmar's own "security forces" (military) . > it's to prevent foreign interference (like CIA) from fueling civil unrest and spreading AI deepfakes, as seen in Myanmar and…
CIA and Amnesty's claims aside, focus on how social media fuels civil unrest, the real concern is foreign interference, Iran has been a target for a very long time The US wants a regime change, that's a fact, Trump has been very vocal on the matter, and the NSA has the tools to do what ever it pleases on the internet (e.g., PRISM)
You started off by listing a bunch of things that did not pass my smell test (and you have now walked back on), then followed it up by what's essentially a scattershot of vague gesturings. Why would I focus on what you tell me to? Not only is any of these not compelling, I do not find you a reliable narrator so far at all.
marcosdumay's comment of here explained situation (giving it more attention) they can censor IPv4 when they want, but they don't know how to censor IPv6. So they block it entirely. This is the reason why they aren't blacking out IPv4 From my own experience, my ex gf was iranian. She was using discord via some psiphon vpn or something iirc idk how she got access to it but she had it. I didn't trust psiphon that much s…
Internet participation is voluntary between countries.
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The Russians are themselves heavy users of starlink.
Can you provide a source for this claim?
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-starlink-ukraine-gur-elon-mu...
https://kyivindependent.com/nearly-half-of-usaid-starlink-te...
Also, as I understand it, a big part of the reason USAID was fed "into the woodchipper" was because they were investigating SpaceX over Russian use of Starlink - see https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating...
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Yes, there are NGOs and organizations that sponsor these and pay for them. Here is an example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/12/18/inside-...
Forbes asking me to pay Elevate Your Journey Invest in your success with unlimited access to trusted, in-depth journalism for less than $1/week. Become a member today to continue. here's an web.archive.org link if anyone's interested which works https://web.archive.org/web/20250301050041/https://www.forbe... Edit: WTF forbes still gives me a popup even in archive, strange, but its less restrictive overall in the web…
The discussion about Starlink is interesting, but with only ~0.1% of the population having access, the real story is the 99.9% who are cut off right now. The asymmetry between those who can broadcast to the world and those who can't is staggering — and even among that 0.1%, many are too afraid to broadcast anything, knowing the risks.
The key is that the 99% can transfer data and such internally to the country; the 0.1% can then leak it out.
I'm an Iranian and this protest is very different because it's not about a specific government policy ... It's about the totality of the regime. Unfortunately, government has been following the same old brutal playbook by killing protesters and cutting off the Internet.
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 the internet not to get shut down during the protest
Am I asking too much?