It’s 100% to prevent citizens from becoming organized. The regime is most fearful of this.

bigyabai 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's multiple motives, not just counter-organization. A media blackout prevents OSINT damage analysis, much like how the IDF and CENTCOM both censor reporting of attacks on their in-theater installations.

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Pay08 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They could easily just censor that, especially since a dictatorship has far more control over the media compared to democracies.

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bigyabai 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The OSINT is a bigger threat than the state media in Iran, hence the internet blackout.

	▲	Pay08 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No, the internet blackout is so their populace doesn't rise up against them.

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dzhiurgis an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's something to be said if it connects (via ethernet or via hidden eSIM) Starlink to local Iranian internet - it is hard to access otherwise.

There is no doubt that CIA has access to Starlink, that's a massive amount of crucial intel right there in battlefront.

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tokioyoyo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How did people organize pre-Internet times though?

	▲	marcosdumay 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Through social gatherings that mostly don't exist anymore.

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fgfarben 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

which is the exact same reason China bans Starlink.

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SXX 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Chinas level of internet filtration and censorship nowhere near Iran or Russia. You just buy tourist eSIM and you're golden in China and literally everyone who wants do it.

Chinese government don't care about small percent of population accessing open internet.

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dzhiurgis an hour ago | parent [-]

FWIW NordVPN doesn't have Iran, Russia or China as their exit node.

	▲	SXX 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Because neither is privacy friendly and open country. It's just amount of money and effort Russia puts into blocking VPNs, proxies and encrypted communication is well beyond China. If you travel to China bypassing all the censorship is super straightforward. In Russia whatever worked month ago will likely not work now. By this time all the wireless mobile internet in Russia is mostly whitelist-only when it works at all. And they start to test whitelists on broadband internet now. And Iran is likely shut off internet for good until reginme collapses.

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markdown 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder why BYD is banned in the US. Are we afraid they'll be used to transport people to gatherings?

	▲	SXX 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not from US, but China is certainly subsidize a lot of its manufacturers to capture global markets while not giving access to it's local market to western companies. US is able to produce cars on its soil and there is no reason to give up this industry to foreign country. It's pretty sane policy.

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recroad 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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sysguest 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this

well... so obvious

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xbmcuser 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the regime narrative is mostly made up by Americans what's the difference between any of the Arab countries from Iran. The only difference is they are not controlled by America. It the same bullshit narrative of promoting democracy but in reality it's just about pushing for a government no matter how bad as long as it supports US control.

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boc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Iranians are not Arabs and thousands of them got gunned down earlier this year protesting the regime. "America bad" doesn't change the fact that the Iranian people deserve a better future.

	▲	xbmcuser an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Who said 1000s of people were gunned down. The pedophile in chief says that and we are supposed to believe it the same guy that has won this war 10+ times already. Bombed and killed thousands of women and children. If you want the Iranian people to have better future remove the sanctions let them grow economically they will gain their own freedoms not the shackles you want on them in the name of your freedoms.

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E-Reverance 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

FYI it’s not an Arab country

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xbmcuser 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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halflife 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wow, there are no words. You would rather live in Tehran or Tel Aviv?

	▲	Thiez an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Preferably neither, but anywhere is better than Israel. Who would want to live in a genocidal apartheid state? Iran was a democracy before US and UK intervention, perhaps they will be again when they win the illegal war against them.

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tptacek 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not an Arab country at all. Iranians are Persian, not Arab. Iran is low-key at war with most of the gulf Arab states.

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xbmcuser 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And no where in any of my statements did I call it an Arab country. I was just calling out hypocrisy of the west when realistically Iran regime is as good or bad as any of the Arab countries or even the untouchable Israel.

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csomar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure why he is being called for this (or maybe he edited his comment?) but I re-read it a couple times and he is not saying Iran is an Arab country but comparing to the other Arab countries.

	▲	xbmcuser 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's normal. They can't debate the actual statement, so they talk about something irrelevant to derail the conversation.