NetBlocks18h ago
⚠️ Update: It's now day 41 of #Iran's internet blackout, with the regime's ban on access to global networks continuing past 960 hours. The measure, unprecedented in scale and duration for a connected society, continues to violate Iranians' rights to communicate and stay informed.
Show threadJeffrey Rogers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@netblocks I suspect that US big tech’s ability to analyse social media and other internet data is no small part of the US ability to locate human targets. Also and without doubt, if there was access, there would also be considerable US/Israeli propaganda fed to social media users. Only one side has this ability. Are we surprised that their opponents shut it out?
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Show threadMehrad   10h ago

@Jeffrey
Based on your post, it seems to me that you think this #Iran internet blackout a new one-off phenomenon. Perhaps this Wikipedia article can help clarifying the situation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Internet_blackout_in_Iran

The gist of it is: the iran gov have cut internet access at any war or uprising as a measure to orchestrate the narrative fed to people inside, and to the rest of the world. This is a technique to control who hears what and when.

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2026 Internet blackout in Iran - Wikipedia

Show threadJeffrey Rogers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿8h ago
@netblocks @Mehrad Who knows how Iran might have turned out had the US and UK not overthrown democracy there in the early 50s? This repressive, awful regime is as much a child of western foreign policy as it is of the fanatics that control it now. My point is that any country that finds itself at war with the US and its tech bros would be wildly naive not to control free rein foreign access to its population. I am commenting on that not previous repressions.