• tacobytes@programming.dev
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    Internet shutdown in Iran is now the longest in world history

    uhhh excuse me not according to the Iranian on lemmy who is proisreal and says he is living in Iran. I told him he does not… then my programming.dev account was Immediately NUKED. Sometime you gotta trust a bro…yah know. Of cource there might of been other “reasons” BUT that was the straw that broke the camels back. I no longer take this platform seriously and shame on me for ever taking any of this dumb online $heet seriously. Unfortunatly the 0!nkers and the feds take it seriously. See you all in the imperial christ0 fash de@th_c@mp$

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      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

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        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.

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        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.

    • Zink@programming.dev
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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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

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        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

  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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    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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    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?

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      you guys are aware trump has already admitted to arming dissidents over there, right?

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      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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        …and keep US propaganda and tech Oligarchs out. Any nation that doesn’t control its information borders, risk ‘regime change’ by the US regime…

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          Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.

          Would your country like to join the Internet borg?

          • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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            hybrid warfare baybee! the northern empires are real good at it! it’s just mass media manipulation from the 1930s only this time again

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      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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        Trump said they tried this by routing them weapons through the Kurds and the Kurds just kept the weapons.

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          Weird, I wonder why the people Trump left to die less than a decade ago don’t want to help him out??

        • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          “i gave weapons to people desperately fighting for survival to give to people desperately fighting for survival. when the didn’t enact my vision, i threw a tantrum”

          what a fuckin’ loser

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            Hey! Whoa! That’s not fair to claim that trumps book and the bussiness style employed in that book relates to this situation! That’s totally an unfair thing to say! After all, the guy who wrote that book has nothing to do with the way trump does bussiness!

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        it likely wont happened as they likely quashed the protests with tons of executions, plus they can just turn of the internet to prevent them from organizing further. they did with the murder of the little iranian girl years ago, there wasnt significant pushback since.

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      Considering Iran shut the Internet off before the us/Israel attacked due to protests, I’m not sure we’ll ever know…

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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        before the us/Israel attacked due to protests

        Israel and the US aren’t attacking due to the protests. They’re attacking because Israel wants to be like Nazi Germany leading up to the world wars and the US wants to help them.

        I question whether Iran actually did this because it seems like an extremely convenient timing of events that almost perfectly mimics the “WMDs” the media harped on about for weeks before we invaded Iraq almost like they’re following the exact same playbook used in that illegal invasion.

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      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)

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        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”.

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          Iran’s government has done plenty to deserve those sanctions. War is wrong no matter which side does it, and Iran is very guilty.

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            I wish you and your family never have to go through the “deserved sanctions” of the USA and EU, which together murder half a million people yearly since 1975 per latest medical research. I’m sure you don’t believe US citizens should starve to death for the actions of their government.

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              saddly nobody has found a better option. Iran has had particularly evil leaders for decades. (Why is interesting history itself - but not relavant to today)

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                saddly nobody has found a better option

                I guess all Yanks should be starved for choosing the wrong president? Or is that something you reserve to nonwhites?

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                  Or you can make war and kill innocents. Or you can turn your back and watch them kill innocents.

                  there are other variations, but I have yet to see an option that isn’t awful.

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          Sure, and Iran isn’t under a regime now, right? They shut down the internet because they didn’t like what was said over it.

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                “Regime” literally means “government”, it’s just a propaganda word to make it sound scary. You could perfectly correctly speak of the “American regime” imprisoning ethnic minorities or the “German regime” forbidding military-aged men from leaving the country without permission, the fact that you unironically use “regime in Iran” as if it were something intrinsically negative proves that your whole understanding of this is vibes-based. If you care about Iranians, riot in your EU/US homeland to destroy the economic sanctions, which MURDER HALF A MILLION people YEARLY over the globe since 1975 per the latest The Lancet publications.

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                  Bla bla, don’t try to “potato tomato” me, you know well what a regime is or you wouldn’t be upset at me calling it that. Funny that you are more worried about the economic sanctions, and not the repression, incarceration and execution of protesters… go spread your propaganda elsewhere.

  • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    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

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      For future reference, any time you want to coordinate some sort of resistance or even protest, the leadership should get on Meshtastic, MeshCore, or some other equivalent. Encrypted mesh communication over radios. The radios are fairly inexpensive starting at around $40.

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

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    … longest in world history

    the world history have appear to forget that the longest there was without internet was literally a few billion years.

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      They probably had internet in Atlantis, or something like it, so that would be a shutdown of like 20,000 years or so before it was invented again.

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      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.

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      Akshually, they have Internet, it’s just turned off.

      The Internet and infrastructure didn’t exist for billions of years, so they couldn’t be without something that didn’t exists