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[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 points 28 minutes ago (1 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. . .

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes 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.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Pretty sure North Korea does not have internet.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They absolutely have internet.

It's just state controlled. So basically a national child safety lock. But they 100% have access the internet.

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 1 points 24 minutes ago

Would they be able to also block or detect i2p traffic?

[–] uenticx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Oh they certainly do and pop up in our hosting logs.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 points 2 hours ago

It does but not for ordinary citizens. And it wouldnt be a shutdown since the Internet isn't normally available.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 3 points 12 hours ago
[–] sepi@piefed.social 38 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

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?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

you guys are aware trump has already admitted to arming dissidents over there, right?

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

They always do this untill they decide to turn on them.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

And if there's one thing you can rely on: we aaaaalways turn on you.

Unless you're Israel.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 4 hours ago

Remember when we armed "Syrian Rebels" and then a few years later had to go and fight a suspiciously well armed ISIS?

[–] sepi@piefed.social 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

you guys are aware he's a serial liar that can't be trusted?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

that's a common us strategy though.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Lying about fuckin' everything? Agreed.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

AND sponsoring color revolutions and rebels everywhere, yes, both are really common.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

yes it's quite awful.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 62 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

The Internet isn’t broken it’s turned off

The reason its turned off was because of protests.

[–] berg@lemmy.zip -4 points 6 hours ago

Protests armed by the US, per Trump

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 15 points 19 hours ago

But now they get to blame the US for everything.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 21 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Gives the regime a nice scapegoat to help turn the protestors anger at the US and external factors.

The smart thing would have been for the US to quietly back the revolution and provide them with support to overthrow the regime. But here we are.

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[–] morto@piefed.social 16 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information

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[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 22 hours ago

The Internet might just be the only way to call for help.

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