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Frequencies can be jammed, you know...
Not country-wide...
But in all the cities where it matters
You cannot frequency jam an entire city either bruv, the way they were preventing Starlink usage was by detecting emitted radio signals of that frequency and going in person to arrest the users and confiscate the equipment.
Okay... so you admit they were heavily censoring it?
Obviously, I never doubted it, but you can't jam 6000 starlinks, so it was still possible for videos to come out of Iran.
Some did, but the reason the videos aren't pasted all over the place is because there was a concerted effort by the Iranian regime to suppress it.
The Iranian government doesn't have the power to suppress western media, and western media would publish every single of these videos like wildfire.
Well, the western media did publish videos. That's why I and others have seen them. You don't have to take my word for it, just follow the link in my previous comment.
The reason it isn't all over your social media feed probably has something to do with tankies not wanting to promote content that proves the Iranian regime is a violent dictatorship. That kind of flies in the face of their carefully constructed alternative reality in which only the west is evil and anti-western governments can do no wrong.
It would be harder for them to deny the atrocities if they were posting the videos themselves, so that's why you don't see as much as you do from Gaza.
Oh, it's tankies controlling social media feeds, thats why I'm literally reacting on .world to this post with 650 upvotes by an account that literally only reposts western propaganda
I didn't say they control all the social media feeds, but if your social media feeds are mostly tankie content then you're not gonna see the stuff they aren't posting.
The guardian isn't western propaganda, ffs. It's independent journalism. You're here peddling pro-mullah propaganda, because the facts are the regime murdered thousands of protesters in the span of a couple weeks and you're trying to say "nuh uh, western lies!"
God forbid there is 1 space in my life not plastered with western imperialist propaganda
If you're going out of your way to avoid any information that conflicts with your preferred narrative, don't act like contrary evidence doesn't exist just because you haven't seen it.
Hey I'm the one with both Hexbear and Reddthat accounts, not dodging anything. I'm just calling atrocity propaganda in the eve of invasion by its name.
The protests and their coverage started before the US admin leapt on it as an opportunity to justify military action. You're discounting a people's movement against an authoritarian regime just because some other authoritarian regime is trying to use them opportunistically.
The protests and their coverage famously happened months after Iran was literally bombed by the US, have you forgotten about that? The whole Iran throwing missiles to Israel thing?
Two different stories, dude...
Sure buddy
Well, now the Zionists are bombing Iran. Do you admit you've been running Zionist propaganda?
It's not zionist propaganda. It's news about current events. Just because zionists latched onto it opportunistically doesn't mean the whole thing is their doing, and it doesn't discredit the New Iran movement either.
And you're a really shitty person for not being able to see the difference.
From the start, as I've stated multiple times, my support is for the Iranian people in their struggle for autonomy and self-determination. You're the one who's been constantly desperate to insert Israel and the US into that narrative, even when the article in this post isn't about them.
Let's see if the US succeeds what happens to Iranian self determination
Okay, but that's a different argument to make on a different post about a different argument, not this one because it's irrelevant here. Literally no one here is arguing in favor of US/Israeli military action.
Why don't you go argue with people on a post about the invasion? Spoiler: you won't see me there supporting it because that's not what I'm doing.
Then stop spreading the same news as the US/Israeli propaganda apparatus
That's not what I was doing. This post is an article from The Guardian, an independent journal, about Iranian student protesters.
But now that we're clearly arguing in circles, I'm blocking you. Enjoy those rials while they last.
Death to Khamenei. The New Iran will rise from the ashes of the regime.
The Guardian is a Zionist mouthpiece, if you refuse to see that after 3 years of genocide the fault is on you.