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⚠️ Update: #Iran is entering Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in digital darkness, as the internet blackout continues into day 21 after 480 hours.

With international connectivity cut and domestic service limited, many families are unable to contact loved ones when it's most needed.

Isik Mater

5d ago

NetBlocks 5d ago

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered its 20th day, with international connectivity unavailable to the general public for over 456 hours.

The incident is now the longest recorded shutdown in Iran's history, surpassing the blackout imposed during protests in January.

Isik Mater

6d ago

NetBlocks 6d ago

ℹ️ Note: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown

Isik Mater

Mar 15

NetBlocks Mar 15

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics indicate a collapse in connectivity on AS12880, a key #Iran telecoms network that had so far remained partly online as part of the ~1% reserved state infrastructure. The incident corroborates reports of instability on the NIN domestic intranet.

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Isik Mater

Mar 15

@iamdorkside @astraleureka

The position of NetBlocks is that civilians are entitled to internet access regardless of political stance and collective restrictions on communications infrastructure are generally harmful.

That's a consistent human rights position, not an endorsement of any government. The forceful attempt to portray organisations as something they're not, or in which they have no interest, is the reason I try to avoid engaging in that Israel/Palestine/Iran debate. Good day.

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Isik Mater

Mar 15

@iamdorkside @astraleureka

Why shouldn't Gazans, North Koreans, Palestinians, Israelis, settlers, Iranians, or refugees have internet access, or any other civilian community for that matter?

We believe in the free flow of information as a tool to educate, break down barriers, as the best hope to develop a common understanding between communities that don't see eye to eye.

There isn't some hidden agenda here - the mission is to foster a free and open internet for its own sake.

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Isik Mater

Mar 15

@astraleureka @iamdorkside These are active probing metrics with around 10m visible endpoints per country. We built this because there was a need to help validate user reports a decade ago when the workflow was too reliant on user self-reports, which are hard to obtain and quantify during a shutdown. As the post says, this relates to internationally visible networks. It's great if others are looking to monitor the domestic intranet but that isn't in scope or technically viable from the outside.

Isik Mater

Mar 15

NetBlocks Mar 15

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered day 16 as the measure continues in its third week, with the public cut off from international networks for 360 hours. Chosen influencers enjoy whitelisting while state media report a new wave of arrests targeting Starlink users.

Isik Mater

Mar 6

NetBlocks Mar 6

⚠️ Update: Metrics show #Iran remains in digital darkness after six full days under an internet blackout, with 1% connectivity at the 144 hour mark.

Meanwhile, the regime continues to promote its agenda through whitelisted networks, cultivating media assets at home and abroad.

Isik Mater

Mar 6

The Public Domain Review Mar 4

A few of the 53 "potted landscapes" made for each of the stations of the Tōkaidō road, the most important route in Edo-period Japan. After they were made the artist had a relatively obscure ukiyo-e artist named Utagawa Yoshishige to illustrate them: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/53-stations-of-the-tokaido-as-potted-landscapes-1848

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