The blackout you wrote about does not just highlight political suppression but reveals something deeper about the inherently brittle architecture of the centralized web. We have built our communications financial systems and cultural exchanges on top of a network that has single points of failure at the national level. That is not just an Iranian problem it is an everywhere problem waiting to happen as the political will arises.
The real value in your account is the human dimension. Uptime metrics do not capture the slow psychological erosion that happens when your ability to interact collaborate and create is suddenly walled off. This is why infrastructure conversations need to move from convenience toward resilience. It is not enough to demand faster speeds or cheaper data plans. We need truly sovereign tools that can operate independently when the main arteries are severed.
Mesh networks community hosted servers distributed storage and local transaction systems are no longer hobby projects or fringe experiments. In situations like yours they become lifelines. Your experience should be a case study for developers investors and policymakers around the world. If they wait until an outage occurs on their own soil it will already be too late to design and deploy alternatives.
What happened in those twelve days is a reminder that the internet is not a given. It is a construct and any construct can be dismantled. The time to harden it is now.
The blackout you wrote about does not just highlight political suppression but reveals something deeper about the inherently brittle architecture of the centralized web. We have built our communications financial systems and cultural exchanges on top of a network that has single points of failure at the national level. That is not just an Iranian problem it is an everywhere problem waiting to happen as the political will arises.
The real value in your account is the human dimension. Uptime metrics do not capture the slow psychological erosion that happens when your ability to interact collaborate and create is suddenly walled off. This is why infrastructure conversations need to move from convenience toward resilience. It is not enough to demand faster speeds or cheaper data plans. We need truly sovereign tools that can operate independently when the main arteries are severed.
Mesh networks community hosted servers distributed storage and local transaction systems are no longer hobby projects or fringe experiments. In situations like yours they become lifelines. Your experience should be a case study for developers investors and policymakers around the world. If they wait until an outage occurs on their own soil it will already be too late to design and deploy alternatives.
What happened in those twelve days is a reminder that the internet is not a given. It is a construct and any construct can be dismantled. The time to harden it is now.