I recollect few years ago when the US ordered all western services to be blocked to Iranian citizens, it was a big outcry when Gitlab and Github published blogs confirming their implementation of the Iran blockade. To me the west lost all moral arguments criticizing Iran for doing the same within their own country.
The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure he's joking around using iran's regime terms to describe its dissidents
The top says this, which doesn't sound like a joke. > The Internet is easily censored. The neo-liberals got their arses kicked. The big players like Google/Apple/AWS are partly to blame. China runs the GFI as a service.
The point is the neo-liberals of Silicon Valley, who essentially adopt a policy of splendid isolation, have failed to protect democracy.
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#33I tried helping my Iranian friend to get around the internet restrictions. I have to agree with the author most big players could not give a flying f*ck. Even signal can't be bothered to address verification SMS issue.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a play on neo-con, which is a term that was used to great affect in American conservative political circles to ostracize those who would cooperate with the opposition party - a.k.a. moderates. It is now used with similar goals by the American far left (to the extent that such a thing exists..). Both terms are often coopted by the the opposition party to demonize moderate counterparts. That said, it sounds cool…
I've heard neocon many times, always in a different context. As far as I'm concerned, the word has no meaning.
I don't see how it's any less meaningful than "liberal," or "conservative." Each of these terms labels a set of family resemblances and is dependent on context.
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#35I 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?
I think the author is suggesting global capitalism is effete when it comes to combating state-sponsored censorship.... which I think is true.
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#36> Instead, the TCP 3-way handshake won't complete (the syn-ack is dropped). Sounds like my internet connection in grad student housing about 10% of the time, except the initial SYN is dropped. Pings and everything else are fine.
I remember one guy in my company had hard-on on blocking every way to tunnel out of our network (...that was not required by anyone, he was just security nut).
We had sites blacking out because he decided DNS tunnelling bad so he blocked anything with low TTL. Meanwhile simple POC DNS tunnel worked fine..
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#37I 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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#38I 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?
Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.
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#39I tried helping my Iranian friend to get around the internet restrictions. I have to agree with the author most big players could not give a flying f*ck. Even signal can't be bothered to address verification SMS issue.
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#40I 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?
I think the author is suggesting global capitalism is effete when it comes to combating state-sponsored censorship.... which I think is true.
The most generous interpretation so far, but the bar is low. To accept that applies here is to accept that what is going on in Iran right now is entirely being orchestrated by outside forces and the citizen protesters have no agency. I'm familiar with this worldview, and I know the ilk that spread it.