"The current #blackout is not an isolated panic reaction but a stress test for a long-term strategy, say advocacy groups—a two-#tiered or “#class-based” #internet known as Internet-e-Tabaqati. #Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, the country’s highest internet policy body, has been laying the legal and technical groundwork for this since 2009.
In July 2025, the council passed a regulation formally institutionalizing a two-tiered hierarchy. Under this system, access to the global internet is no longer a default for #citizens, but instead a #privilege granted based on #loyalty and professional necessity. The implementation includes such things as “white SIM cards“: special mobile lines issued to government officials, security forces, and approved journalists that bypass the state’s filtering apparatus entirely."
#censorship #fascism #evolution
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/why-tehrans-two-tiered-internet-is-so-dangerous.html
Iran is slowly emerging from the most severe communications blackout in its history and one of the longest in the world. Triggered as part of January’s government crackdown against citizen protests nationwide, the regime implemented an internet shutdown that transcends the standard definition of internet censorship. This was not merely blocking social media or foreign websites; it was a total communications shutdown. Unlike previous Iranian internet shutdowns where Iran’s domestic intranet—the National Information Network (NIN)—remained functional to keep the banking and administrative sectors running, the 2026 blackout ...
https://nkvsspsundaycomics.thecomicseries.com/comics/275/
Know the tiers & lets get some reform
#SocialSecurity #SSI #SSDI #tiered #sundayvibes #webcomics #webcomicchat #comicbookhour #comics #NKVSSP #differences #knowthem #rules #media #penalties #separate #reform #SundayMorning #SundayBrunch #vibecheck
The Elephant's Tiers
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3i/Atlas
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Appledectomy