Mehrad 
To those who wonder if this #Iran war is unwelcome or welcome by Iranians: the solution is not putting efforts to stop or continue the war. The solution is to push for giving people the voice to express their opinion by giving them the internet back! Really that simple. Don't jump to conclusions **before** hearing all the facts. In this day and age, internet is essential part of life and Iran gov has cut internet for the past 850 hours (37 days):
Boud@Mehrad This is something where cyberspace *might* help in terms of pressuring the media and governments. If you know of websites with petitions, or pressure-your-MEP/MP/member-of-Congress guides or similar, to #OpenTheIranianInternet , add them to this thread.
I see lots of Manichean comments on Fedi about the #ceasefire, but very few boosts of comments by Iranians on Fedi, and I haven't seen any calls (apart from yours) for the 99% or so Internet blockade to be lifted.
@boud
Tbh, I don't know why there is this much resistance in accepting that war didn't cause the internet blackout, war didn't hit internet infrastructure, and war was not the reason internet censorship started in the first place.
I've personally lost hope. Among all online people I know, only three (including you) are caring about the situation. I saw more posts about petrol price than human rights. I guess it is what it is, and somehow Gaza is more important for people than Iran or Myanmar.🤷
There's a serious-looking petition at #Daadkhast [1]. @Mehrad - does Daadkhast look like credible to you? I tried signing but so far got no email confirmation info, and my sig hasn't appeared (yet). Maybe there's manual checking to avoid spam/abuse. #Daadkhast does appear to have some role in #EuropeanParliament campaigning [2].
[1] https://www.daadkhast.org/en/petition/6360
[2] https://xcancel.com/ilhankyuchyuk/status/1494257274319257603
@boud
Thanks for putting the efforts and time into this.
I personally believe that petitions that are working outside of a legal and judicial framework are completely useless. Change.org or Daadkhast.org and most importantly, ohchr.org are equally waste of time. The difference is that ohchr.org is getting paid to do something about it, and yet read the homepage and Ctrl+f "iran".
@boud
Although signing an online form will never translate to a tangible change, I appreciate you and others who are, to say the least, trying to make a change. I'm truely thankful.
I believe the only actual way forward is to push governments to acknowledge the blackout and put it in their agenda during negotiations (whatever this term may mean in this day and age). Govs like UK, Germany, and France have been in total [deliberate] ignorance/indifference about this so far.
@Mehrad OHCHR *does* object to the IRI internet block [3].
Per your "actual way forward ... to push governments", politicians on Fedi like @marinetondelier @VoltEuropa @marcel_kolaja may be motivated by ordinary Fedizens like me and you by comments, but also by numbers collected by petitions like the #Daadkhast one. Even the most ethical politicians need both qualitative and quantitative evidence of voters' wishes/evidence/arguments.
Türk warns of deepening clampdown on freedom of expression across Middle East
GENEVA – Since the US and Israeli attacks on Iran commenced, repression of civic space and freedom of expression has significantly deepened across the Middle East, compounding the already existing climate of fear unleashed by multiple conflicts and crises, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned today.
@boud
Thanks for the link, but I fail to see **any** objection! As the Matter of fact, the term "internet" have been used only and only once in the entire article! Can you point me to the sentence?
That article is trying to hammer the issue of "arbitrary detentions and other forms of State repression" across all middle eastern countries, which is fully off-topic of internet blackout and communication cuts.
@boud
To clarify my point, reporting something is not in any shape or form an objection. In this article they have "reported" _some_ human rights violations, and they have reported internet blackout. If this is objection or condemnation, then @netblocks have been doing a far far better job than OHCHR, and more accurately I should add.
I would like to acknowledge the **actual condemnation** Netblocks does in absolute majority of their posts.
@Mehrad
You're correct: there's no overt condemnation. I see only one sentence in [3] about the Internet. But I think we can *infer* that the block is part of "Blanket restrictions [that] are generally inconsistent with international human rights law".
Politicians like @marinetondelier @VoltEuropa @marcel_kolaja - could you please urgently call for the IRI's internet blockade to be lifted? As @netblocks says, this is "unprecedented in scale and duration for a connected society".