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Iran's internet blackout is now past hour 1776, entering its 75th day. The digital censorship measure has led to profiteering and a decline in digital security as government-backed "pro" internet schemes and selective whitelisting result in surveillance, corruption and scams.



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government-backed "pro" internet schemes

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I'm not 100% sure, but the Iranian cyber army is legit.

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Crazy that they shut down (jammed) Starlink a few weeks before that. How are there not riots?

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Revolutionary Guard must be doing a hell of a job!

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if only they'd put that kind of effort and energy into, i dunno, making the lives of their citizens better

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What kind of investigation have you done to determine that their citizens are not satisfied with the quality of life?

At the opening of this ridiculous conflict, I spent a fair bit of energy trying to find interviews with native Iranians, and to me it seems like, despite the religious style of government, a lot of people just weren't that mad about it all.

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you can assume the Iranians are very satisfied with their government, be my guest

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you can assume everything you hear about them and their opinions comes from somewhere other than Iran, seeing as they're completely disconnected from our network

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It’s bare rare for the guards to actually improve anyone's life.

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When your sovereignty has been under attack from the US/CIA since 1953 you do tend to get a certain degree of pressure upon the civil liberties that westerners might consider normal.
US imperialism is a global plague undermining free trade, democracy and capitalism.
Iran is fighting back and the majority of Iranians are prepared to fight for the right to self determination and freedom rather than be slaves to US hegemony and Zionist war criminals.

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Helluva job Brownie. Information kinda has a tendency of becoming free though

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Most Iranians understand that US-Zionist war crimes are enabled by infiltration of the internet by Mossad.
Most Iranians understand the importance of continuing to resist US-Zionist attacks upon their sovereignty and right to self determination.

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Most people are sheep, too. How exactly does Mossad prevent you as an self-sufficient individual using a global communications platform to your advantage? I know it helps them, but how does that hurt you? Why do you believe someone gaining is necessarily your loss, aka zero sum?

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Mossad used the internet to access security cameras in Tehran and other locations enabling them to assassinate numerous Iranian politicians and leaders.
As someone who prizes my ability to determine my own destiny, and believing in my right and that of others to determine their own destiny, I oppose any entity that seeks to use force to impose its will upon others.
I do not know the extent to which Mossad may seek to obstruct my freedom of speech and access to information via the internet- perhaps it would depend upon how much of a threat they might see me as presenting?

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There are numerous tools at your disposal to shield your identity from them. Shutting down the internet is an extremely blunt tool to do that, and one that should be a personal decision, not one made by authoritarians. Seems like the government wanted to keep security cameras on for their own purposes. They should have just disabled or replaced those, or improved their security.

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Easy for you to say but then you have not been under constant attack from USA and Zionist thugs since 1953.

Am not hiding from Mossad - let them come and get me.

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Because their internal internet still works just fine, and they have spent a good deal of energy developing all of the requisite tools internally, as opposed to relying on, for instance, Uber, Instagram.

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That's nuts. I would love to hear stories from digital natives who are living there.

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 13 May -30 sats

https://m.stacker.news/141149

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 13 May -30 sats

US media censors any mention of The Greater Israel Project.

Even Stacker News seems to condone downapping suppression of the truth.

https://m.stacker.news/141145

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 13 May -30 sats

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/evolution-greater-israel-concept-from-theory-reality-salman-siddiqui-xymaf/

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 13 May -30 sats

In other news US universities are selling dead Americans bodies to the Israeli military for use training Israeli military personal - the body donors and their families were not informed of the use to which their bodies would be put...they believed it was for medical research.

https://m.stacker.news/141143

People in Iran want peace- it is US imperialist-Zionist war criminals who will not allow it!

https://m.stacker.news/141144

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Contra_ 13 May -30 sats

The surveillance is not a side effect of the blackout. It is the product.