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.

Just wanna state that this has been going on since before US involvement. Two dictatirs fighting each other....

you can feel their liberation. thanks, US. good guys btw.

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?

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. . .

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

That article reads like a ChatGPT summary, though I'm not sure if that's partially due to translation from German or not.

Pretty sure North Korea does not have internet.

I lived half of my life without the internet. They'll probably be happier.

Fuck heise