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> not all servers like to get traffik from TOR. For instance, CloudFlare annoys when you are accessing its servers through TOR. This is why you shouldn't ban Tor. In some places, it is absolutely necessary.
it's also why you shouldn't abuse Tor with web scraping or other actions that lead to sites blocking it
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This is a good point. To add a slightly different perspective, I work for a US company that routinely has to deal with cyber attacks by Iranian professionals, probably government sponsored. I think most people don't realize how incredibly serious this is, and how basically there is already a global war being fought. And the nations with the most freedom have the most to lose. Certainly most of the people in Iran are…
"And the nations with the most freedom have the most to lose." What on Earth does this mean?
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At the moment the people doing the expelling are Iranians (and their allies) in Syria, and they threaten to do it elasewhere. For whatever it's worth, Palestinians are not being expelled, and furthermore, Israeli presence is not illegal according to resolution 242. In addition, Iran is also even more repressive than SA, because they are killing dissidents outside of their territory, unlike SA. Then again, I don't see…
> At the moment the people doing the expelling are Iranians ... For whatever it's worth, Palestinians are not being expelled How can you say something like this? It's even happening right now, for example these are today's news: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-jerus... Just imagine the scene: "Bulldozers accompanied by hundreds of Israeli soldiers and police moved in to Sur Baher, a Palestinian…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerusal...
I’m always caught by surprise when I see intelligent, educated people ignore the nature and actions of Iran to justify their adversarial feelings towards the US administration. Iran is on an unprecedented aggressive and violent push towards dominating the Middle East. They are deployed in Syria, building forward bases to threaten Israel, destabilize Lebanon and pushing it closer to another war with Israel by funding…
Do you think Iran is worse than the US when it comes to foreign involvement, world domination, destabilising regions, arming militias, assassinations on foreign soil, ballistic missile programmes, proxy wars, human rights violations such as torture, etc.?
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> In addition, Iran is also even more repressive than SA, because they are killing dissidents outside of their territory, unlike SA. Have you not heard about Jamal Khashoggi? It was a big story a while back. > It's pretty natural for the US to oppose those ideologically hostile to it. Chicken or egg? That is, if the US hadn't engaged in regime change operations in Iran and hadn't supported Saddam in attacking Iran, w…
Khashoggi was killed inside Saudi embassy, that is, Saudi territory. I'm not excusing it, but had he been warned, he could have just avoided going in. Iran tends to kill people outright on foreign soil. e.g. https://www.tellerreport.com/news/--intelligence-service-ira... It's funny that people think that the mullahs have any grudges against the US becuase the US overthrew a 'socialist atheist'. They didn't like Mosad…
That's generally not really how embassies work, but sure.
> Khomeini's grudge was purely ideological.
As in "all islamic religious hardliners in charge of a country hate the US"? The first gulf war couldn't have anything to do with it?
I’m always caught by surprise when I see intelligent, educated people ignore the nature and actions of Iran to justify their adversarial feelings towards the US administration. Iran is on an unprecedented aggressive and violent push towards dominating the Middle East. They are deployed in Syria, building forward bases to threaten Israel, destabilize Lebanon and pushing it closer to another war with Israel by funding…
Because you are not sanctioning only the military and the government, you are sanctioning everyone in the country. You are sanctioning young people, who just want to live their lives, just like we do. They already suffer from the oppressive regime, and you just want to make their live even harder. All the Iranians I've met seem like completely normal people. I've never been to Iran, but from what I hear the young peo…
Throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm one of those operations people who have been required by a legal department to block access from sanctioned countries - I've literally written the HTTP rules to deny access to folks like the original author. I think about how the infrastructure I write and operate creates situations like these, and while I know I'm partly to blame, it's worth highlighting that this is a by-p…
I do not know how others feel. But I feel resentment towards embargoes (and calling their poodle countries to follow suite) placed on other countries just because they don't tow your line. Going to Iran's backyard and threatening them and then cry when they retaliate (a pretext to start war)...its so...pathetic. In fact most of the 20th century wars were started using this kind of baiting.
Most of the comments below you are correct in the scope of the last 10 years, but in the context of the last 50 are absurd. For those curious about how and where the whole "Iran thing" started: A freely elected Iranian president decided to nationalise oil fields. This irked British Petroleum (Anglo-Iranian Oil Company at the time..) and the USA, so they initiated a coup to overthow the government [1], complete with C…
EDIT - Does not mean you are playing this timeline game. I meant a few others.
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Khashoggi was killed inside Saudi embassy, that is, Saudi territory. I'm not excusing it, but had he been warned, he could have just avoided going in. Iran tends to kill people outright on foreign soil. e.g. https://www.tellerreport.com/news/--intelligence-service-ira... It's funny that people think that the mullahs have any grudges against the US becuase the US overthrew a 'socialist atheist'. They didn't like Mosad…
> Khashoggi was killed inside Saudi embassy, that is, Saudi territory. That's generally not really how embassies work, but sure. > Khomeini's grudge was purely ideological. As in "all islamic religious hardliners in charge of a country hate the US"? The first gulf war couldn't have anything to do with it?
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> What it boils down to for me is which side do you want to win? Being fair and impartial doesn't mean considering that both of the nations are the same and the outcome will be the same if either side wins, with only a different name and flag for the victor. Your argument makes sense, but it starts with a very flawed assumption: that Iran wants to dominate the world. The reality accepted by everyone except the US and…
> Iran has entered deals with the US and other western countries to renounce its nuclear weapons program in exchange for lifting the embargo Which weapons program? AFAIK current Iranian inspection mechanisms are the most stringent (anywhere ever).