Longreads3d ago

"By finding the exact vocabulary for grief, I was trying to “wash” the faces of those falling in the streets just blocks away, reclaiming them from the system’s indifference." —Miadd Banki for Public Books

https://www.publicbooks.org/they-would-not-dream-of-flowers-translating-through-the-tehran-blackout/

#Iran #InternetBlackout #Translation

They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout - Public Books

As the entire country was plunged into a digital blackout, the only light remaining in my room was the cold, clinical glow of my disconnected laptop. There, in that forced isolation, I sat translating a story about death.

Public Books
Su_G4d ago

Is this where we’re headed too? Speculation that recent outages in Russia were tests for unplugging from internet & global community (similar to what’s already happening in Iran, also China). Population response: “Local media reported that retailers recorded a quick surge in demand for pagers, portable radios, stationary phones, media players and road maps, as the shutdowns gripped the capital.”
…
“Mohiuddin Ahmed, associate professor in cybersecurity at Adelaide University … said internet blackouts could become a "successful" strategy for governments to control domestic political unrest.
"Internet blackouts are put in place so that everyday people can't know what's going on in the rest of the world." “

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/moscow-internet-shutdown-russia-test-censorship/69rjp4wai

#Russia #MoscowInternetOutages #InternetBlackout #InternetOutages
#controlDomesticUnrest #RussianPolitics

Does a 'Great Firewall' loom? Why Russians are buying up walkie-talkies and road maps

Some believe Russia is testing a system that could cut it off from the global internet.

SBS News
Mathrubhumi English5d ago
Iran’s internet remains at 1% for the 30th day. 90M people isolated. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/iran-internet-blackout-30-days-netblocks-us-israel-conflict-shutdown-update-u9qhidv8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Iran #InternetBlackout #NetBlocks #HumanRights #DigitalDarkness
Show threadBundestag First Said KontextFeb 23

#Internetblackout tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 57. Sitzung des 21. Deutschen Bundestages am 30.01.2026 auf. Es wurde im Rahmen der Rede von Parsa Marvi (SPD) gesagt.

Video: https://de.openparliament.tv/media/DE-0210057051?q=Internetblackout

Parsa Marvi, SPD | 30.01.2026 | Iranpolitik | Open Parliament TV

Speech on the subject Iranpolitik by Parsa Marvi (Deutscher Bundestag, 30.01.2026)

Show thread🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧🔧📎 AmbiyelpFeb 8

@arcanechat

I'm trying to think how I would block simplex and the first thing that came to mind was looking up all known simplex servers and adding them to a block list, can't the exact same thing be done to chatmail servers?

I'm aware tor entry nodes can be added to a block list. I wish more projects would consider I2P, I wish it was more known in general it should fix the issue of blocking entry nodes/servers because everyone is a node, add traffic obfuscation on top of that and it should have been safe from the Iran internet blackout

#PSA #E2EE #Tor #I2P #Iran #InternetBlackout #Censorship #SimpleX #DeltaChat

CBC WorldFeb 4
Iranian doctor describes treating patients during protest crackdown
A doctor describes treating patients in Iran during the regime’s violent crackdown on nationwide protests, telling CBC’s Margaret Evans the scenes were ‘extremely horrifying’ — details that have largely been masked by a government-imposed internet blackout in the country.
#protest #crackdown #internetblackout #Iran
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7073298?cmp=rss
CBC Top StoriesFeb 4
Iranian doctor describes treating patients during protest crackdown
A doctor describes treating patients in Iran during the regime’s violent crackdown on nationwide protests, telling CBC’s Margaret Evans the scenes were ‘extremely horrifying’ — details that have largely been masked by a government-imposed internet blackout in the country.
#protest #crackdown #internetblackout #Iran
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7073298?cmp=rss
Show threadMohammad Rafigh - TechFeb 3

So, I’m thinking about some kind of solution to selfhost or implement that would allow us to receive things like RSS feeds or news from Telegram channels. To be clear, when they shut down international traffic, there is no way to connect using normal protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, etc.
Do you have any ideas about this?

#Iran #InternetShutdown #InternetBlackout #IranProtests

Mohammad Rafigh - TechFeb 3

During the complete internet blackout in Iran, one of the most important things we missed was a way to receive news. The blockage still continues, it’s a little easier now to access the international internet, but it is still whitelisted.

#Iran #InternetShutdown #InternetBlackout #IranProtests

Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 27

But for those that don't know, #Toosheh is a pretty cool #datacasting tech which yeets stuff down at 51dBW directly onto #Iran, thus is pretty hard to jam or even detect, as propably a regular wok with a cheap LNB on a broom duct-taped to it can do the reception.

So if you know anyone stuck in #Iran and having to deal with #InternetCensorship and #internetOutage / #InternetBlackout / #InternetShutdown there, and they happen to have a DVB-S Reciever with "PVR ready" function (i.e. recording to a USB drive), Satellite Dish & LNB [all 3 are illegal to own in Iran, so best not ask them over the phone!] recommend them to shove a 4 GB Stick into it and let it record for >1 hour, then end the recording and use their application to extract the files in it.

  • The program loops hourly, so it can be programmed for recording when noone else is using the Reciever (i.e. late at night, early morning or at lunchtime)...

The parameters for the reciever are:

YahSat-1 @ 52,5°E
11.766 MHz / 11,766 GHz
Vertical Polarization
DVB-S (QPSK, 0,35 ROF, 16200+Pilot
27.500 kSymbols/s
FEC 7/8

They should find a station with a green title card and text in Persian.

All that's needed beyond the reciever is a Device with either Linux, Android or Windows to run their decoder tool.

  • AFAICT the package is substantial (~ 2GB) and should contain multimedia, VPN/Proxy details and @torproject / #TorBrowser as well as instructions.

#Iran #CantStopTheSignal #Datacasting #Airgapped #Broadcasting #TV #Satellite