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?
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.
Trump said they tried this by routing them weapons through the Kurds and the Kurds just kept the weapons.
The Internet isn’t broken it’s turned off
The reason its turned off was because of protests.
But now they get to blame the US for everything.
What does my second sentence say, friend?
At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information
…and keep US propaganda and tech Oligarchs out. Any nation that doesn’t control its information borders, risk ‘regime change’ by the US regime…
Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.
Would your country like to join the Internet borg?
The Internet might just be the only way to call for help.
… longest in world history
the world history have appear to forget that the longest there was without internet was literally a few billion years.
Don’t be a pendant, you know what they fucking meant.
Edit: actually, it’s not even pedantic, it’s just wrong. Before the internet existed, there was never an internet shutdown.
That article reads like a ChatGPT summary, though I’m not sure if that’s partially due to translation from German or not.
Do we know it was actually Iran who shut it down or whether it was the US or Israel who did it instead?
It would be very odd if the US or Israel did it, because this started when Iran wanted to stop communications among citizens who were protesting the government.
TL;DR, yes. It was Iran. It began before the attacks on Iran (back when it was Iran attacking its own people)
It began before the attacks on Iran
Not true. Iranian people have been attacked by murderous US+EU sanctions killing tens of thousands of them every year for decades now. The protests were literally engineered by the US as a form of justification for the war, look at Iranian Rial exchange prices on the months before the protests. Hell, Trump literally admit a few days ago to sending weapons to the “protestors”.
Iran shut it down. They were cear about that-
