• PolarPirate@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

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

  • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    10 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

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      5 hours ago

      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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          And the fact that it’s a mesh so theoretically it should be easy to avoid a single point of failure. If one person with one gets arrested or otherwise silenced, the network stays up. Probably need a way to rotate keys though.

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    18 hours ago

    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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      10 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.

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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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        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.

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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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    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. . .

  • 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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    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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      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

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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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    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?

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      The Internet isn’t broken it’s turned off

      The reason its turned off was because of protests.

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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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        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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        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??

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

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            Stop giving is_._n0t_re@l so much credit… the y@nk and the z!0 got each others member up each others '@'rse. They fight in public kinda, but in private they freak in the sheetz. The ol good cop bad cop…Global capitalism is held together with leverage and threats anyways. The plebs have no say in anything anywhere. Yet the chaos can be avoided. It just depends on where you are standing. SPLATTT

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        The CIA running s3x sl@ves, drugs and guns… If they weren’t I would be worried. The Y@n_kkk_333 cartel and low level gangs are like peas and carrots. I just started runnnnning.

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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?

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