Mastodawn

@aral @ZekuZelalem As Fedizens with a lot of reach, you might want to boost this petition by Iranians to #OpenTheIranianInternet :

[1] https://www.daadkhast.org/en/petition/6360

Signatures seem to appear within about an hour after (my guess) manual checking.

You can ask Iranian Fedizens if they have a better idea:

@MirSobhan @Mehrad @masoud @prma @prbzrg

Help Restore Internet Access in Iran, Be the Voice of the Iranian People

Raise your voice, write a petition. Every person is welcome to submit a petition on any subject.

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Perma 1d ago

@boud @aral @ZekuZelalem @MirSobhan @Mehrad @masoud @prbzrg I appreciate the intentions. But I’m not sure I can see how this petition can do anything.

1. Islamic republic will not be convinced by this because it is the exact kind of behavior they want to stop by disconnecting the internet. (1/7)

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Perma 1d ago

2. There has been a lot of investigation into the way that Islamic republic has been censoring the internet over the past ten years. The Citizen lab and Netblocks has been really active in doing so. There is no lack of information about it. (2/7)
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Perma 1d ago

3. Long-term the only diplomatic tool that other countries have ever had was sanctions. (3/7)
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Perma 1d ago

And that just made us more and more poor while the same people that are aimed by those sanctions never got really affected, because they has the power and resources to circumvent those measures, while the people in Iran paid the actual cost. (4/7)
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Perma 1d ago

4. Non-theatrical political actions come with real prices for west. Just look at how closing the strait of Hormoz is reflected in European news: only caring about the oil prices, people of Iran be damned. (5/7)
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Perma 1d ago

Hardly any political figure will take a hardline approach when their next election period is closing by and Islamic republic’s loyalist have already invaded highly-visible publications like New York Times. (6/7)
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Perma 1d ago

So what is the mechanism that we should hope this petition have in causing any effective good for the people of Iran? (7/7)
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Boud 1d ago

2/3 @prma @MirSobhan @masoud

Mechanism: That petition [1] (and this Fediverse bubble) is (are) a small component of a complex dynamical system [4]. A positive feedback loop to #OpenTheIranianInternet could grow exponentially (beyond Fedi) to the point where the IRI/IRGC concede to external + internal pressure (such as son of President [5]). Whether it grows or is dampened will (partly) depend on arguments for or against.

@Mehrad

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system_approach_to_peace_and_armed_conflict

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/25/iran-presidents-son-urges-authorities-to-restore-internet-after-protest-blackout

Complex system approach to peace and armed conflict - Wikipedia

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Misano

@boud @[email protected] these are politic games. We shouldn't plan on noises of reformist that are saying this lies to keep their credit between people by pretending "hey look at us we don't look like regime".

We have a lot to say about they but there is no time. Just believe me there is no way regime opens internet before wars end.