Just wanna state that this has been going on since before US involvement. Two dictatirs fighting each other....
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I think the US president threatening to wipe the entire country of Iran off the map is a bigger story.
when authoritarians fight, the people lose
Well, they're kinda busy right now getting bombed so I don't think it's a priority now.
Like, sure, at first the blackout was due to repression, yes. But then after a while these two countries started bombing the crap out of Iran, so now it's a slightly different situation.
Let's imagine you have two crackheads smashing your front door: are you gonna be worried about fixing the internet at that very moment?
The Internet isn’t broken it’s turned off
The reason its turned off was because of protests.
But now they get to blame the US for everything.
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Gives the regime a nice scapegoat to help turn the protestors anger at the US and external factors.
The smart thing would have been for the US to quietly back the revolution and provide them with support to overthrow the regime. But here we are.
it likely wont happened as they likely quashed the protests with tons of executions, plus they can just turn of the internet to prevent them from organizing further. they did with the murder of the little iranian girl years ago, there wasnt significant pushback since.
At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information
The Internet might just be the only way to call for help.
You know, i think i might learn how to set up ad hoc networks to prepare for this sort of thing. I know its essentially wartime there now, but without internet, its harder to transmit the truth from the eyes of the civilians. Fucking sucks whats happening there. Repressive government, but filled with people who simply want a life free of the conflict, the endless battles, various ethnic groups simply wanting freedom from those who have invaded and partitioned their people.
This cant end well. . .
FYI, the old Linksys 54Gs can TRX packet radio over HAM frequencies.
couple it up with a LORA wan and you would have a pretty robust communication network.
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There are some in the govt with whitelisted SIM cards and dissidents with starlink dishes but that’s it. Most Iranians are trying to get out of the country to get internet access at a risk.
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you can feel their liberation. thanks, US. good guys btw.
ITT: people posting on the internet about something they found out about from the internet saying that an authoritarian regime shutting down the internet because the people under that regime were using it to coordinate resistance efforts is not so bad
sorry, i'd take y'all a lot more seriously if you were having that conversation over ham radio
For future reference, any time you want to coordinate some sort of resistance or even protest, the leadership should get on Meshtastic, MeshCore, or some other equivalent. Encrypted mesh communication over radios. The radios are fairly inexpensive starting at around $40.
Reddit just banned me for a harmless comment..and I’m pissed… anyone wanna talk about this?
You're not alone. I got banned for wishing a missile strike on Putin..
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