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Internet shutdown in Iran is now the longest in world history (www.heise.de)

submitted 1 day ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] PolarPirate@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think the US president threatening to wipe the entire country of Iran off the map is a bigger story.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 hours ago

when authoritarians fight, the people lose

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 hours ago

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

[+] tacobytes@programming.dev 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago

I say we shouldn't take any platforms "seriously."

This platform is small and open and hosted by volunteer individuals. That is what makes it nice for most of us, but it also means there will always be a variety in who you interact with and it will never be a consistent homogenous branded product.

The huge corporate platforms kind of flip that - you get a massive user base and a very intentionally designed user experience, but everything else about it is a nightmare.

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

I know a few Iranian people who are studying in my university in Italy and they are all Zionist.. I understand that living in a dictatorship is bad but bro you can't justify a genocide just because you want to dress up more revealing holy shit bro

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

A good chunk of the Iranian diaspora are the old supporters of the monarchy. Under the Shah Iran and Israel were allies. Also a lot of Iranians are strongly racist against Arabs. The fact that a lot of Arabs killed family members, when Iraq invaded them in 1980 and an eight year long bloody war followed, certainly does not help.

Not saying Israels genocide is a good thing, but the Iranian diaspora is probably a bad gauge to judge Iran by.

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 hours ago

basically if someone flees a revolution and goes to live in a western country, they're the worst scum in the world. they seethe with hatred for their former countrymen and they want nothing more than to be placed in power by a US invasion, to put their boots back on the necks of the peasants once again. Not only should you not listen to them, you should be actively hostile to them. If the war causes a global famine (via fertilizer shortages) and it comes to it, you should eat them.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Boo on you for fucking with Yanni's rape dog training service!

[–] Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Reddit just banned me for a harmless comment..and I’m pissed… anyone wanna talk about this?

[–] mimavox@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

You're not alone. I got banned for wishing a missile strike on Putin..

[–] toad@lemmy.wtf 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

noooo you got banned for calling for war crime?

First time?

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Is it a war crime to attack the military leader? I kind of doubt that. Military targets are fine under international law.

[–] Oilydischarg@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Reddit sucks. They have "bent the knee".

[+] BilboBargains@lemmy.world -10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Approximately 0.1 years out of 3 billion years, truly a crisis. Precisely what people occupied themselves with for 3 billion years before the internet existed we may never know. Some claim they spent quite considerable time as single cell organisms, then multicellular aquatic organisms, until the species reached it's apogee, a flabby orange real estate pedo fraudster.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's a stupid time frame. Wouldn't be so bad except nearly everything relies on the Internet now. Especially information.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

lots of prepper fetishist weirdos in this thread who seem to think anyone who thinks electricity, plumbing, and internet is normal are 'weak'.

because apparently if we were 'strong' we would all be hunting animals and coking their carcasses over fires and sleeping outside... and communicating via smoke signal.. lol

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago

Can I coke with you?

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Survival of the fittest, but unfortunately for all things earthly, for a brief period of time the fittest inexplicably turned out to be an orange blob of shit, jeopardizing any further evolution for all species.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 13 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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. . .

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

if it isn't perfect we aren't done

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

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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[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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