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Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests (bbc.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader cold fjord writes: As seething discontent has boiled over in Iran leading to mass protests, protesters have taken to the streets and social media to register their discontent... The government has been closing schools and shutting down transportation.
Now, as mass protests in Iran go into their third day there are reports that internet access is being cut in cities with protests occurring. Social media has been a tool for documenting the protests and brutal crackdowns against them. Iran previously cut off internet access during the Green Movement protests following the 2009 elections. At the same time the Iranian government is cutting internet access they have called on Telegram, reportedly used by more than 40 million Iranians, to close the channels used by protesters. Telegram is now closing channels used by the protesters while Telegram itself may be shut down in Iran.
Now, as mass protests in Iran go into their third day there are reports that internet access is being cut in cities with protests occurring. Social media has been a tool for documenting the protests and brutal crackdowns against them. Iran previously cut off internet access during the Green Movement protests following the 2009 elections. At the same time the Iranian government is cutting internet access they have called on Telegram, reportedly used by more than 40 million Iranians, to close the channels used by protesters. Telegram is now closing channels used by the protesters while Telegram itself may be shut down in Iran.
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The AIPAC in USA is behind this. Probably thru the CIA. And That's A Good Thing, Here's Why
Thank FCC, you caused this!!
... Brexit and learn, America!
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Oooohhhh that Trump! I can't eat, I can't sleep! All I think about is Trump and I get so angry I just go outside and scream and scream!!!
Threatens telegram? Something like this:
Stop rioting stop if you don't there'll be bother stop
END OF MESSAGE 53 LETTERS 17 CENTS
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
iran don't like trump neither?
The world would be a better place without medieval religious fanatics who throw gays off buildings getting nuclear weapons.
Thanks Obama!
First, the good news: Trump is less likely to attack NK (to distract attention from Russiagate and rally popular opinion) if the Iranians launch missiles against Israel (to distract attention from the protests and rally popular opinion).
The bad news: WW III will suck hard for most of us, whether it starts in the Middle East or the Korean peninsula.
Iran was once a democracy until they elected the "wrong" leader and America and Britain fixed it by putting in the Shah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As long as the rank and file soldiers and police don't feel that the internal turmoil in Iran won't be exploited by outside forces they likely will tolerate peaceful protests. There is a good chance the Iranian leadership won't order any kind of crack down for fear the police won't obey them. If the rest of the worlds leaders can resist opening their mouths there is a good chance Iran can be another success story like Tunisia.
I just saw this video on what's going on in Iran:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbXWFKttVs8
One thing I took away was this, it takes just one generation for freedom to die. If a totalitarian government can stay in power long enough for everyone that remembers what freedom looks and feels like then freedom can die. At that point people people don't know any better and expect nothing else. That's what North Korea has become. In North Korea they've had the Kim family in charge long enough that anyone that remembers the time before is dead, or at least weak and senile enough to be safely ignored.
The people in Iran had freedom roughly 40 years ago. If freedom is not restored soon then the people that remember what freedom felt like will be gone and Iran will continue in this darkness they've created for a very long time. This is Iran's last chance. If this current public outcry does not restore a democracy then expect Iran to become a nation like North Korea, shut off from the rest of the world and left to live in their own shit.
It's not like things are going well in North Korea right now. They just had an officer run the border with his own troops shooting at him. When he was recovered from the DMZ by South Korean forces he was found with evidence of severe starvation, in a nation where the military eats first. That's what Iran can look forward to if this revolt is put down, they can expect 50 years of starvation and misery.
I expect that if Iran falls then we can expect North Korea to fall not long after.
Mesh networks implemented properly are much harder to shut down.
Makes it rather easy for governments (or anyone) to shut down a group. Log in and start saying a lot of violent garbage. Channel banned. Problem solved.
This news must come as a shock to CNN viewers because they've been running 24-7 coverage of that damn white truck that blocks CNN's view of Trump playing golf. Oh wait, this won't shock CNN viewers because CNN still isn't covering it at all.
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Not much of a 2nd amendment in Iran...
While the corrupted Iranian regime cutting access to the Net for fear that the protest will spread, the Western MSM is cooperating with the Iranian regime by doing everything they can to SUPPRESS THE NEWS !
Do we need 'mass media' when it is part of a censorship cartel?
...and terrorists, as used in Ukraine, Libya, and Syria. Prominent politicians including Howard Dean have lobbied for MEK, which was on the State Department's list of terror groups until people started asking why people like Dean weren't being prosecuted, when the government sent someone to prison for carrying a Hezbollah TV channel. Iran has been on the "regime change" list since they kicked out the Shah. Obama spent years threatening to attack Iran for a nuclear weapons program he knew they didn't have, and Trump hasn't been any better.
So, take these protests with a BIG grain of salt.
How they took power.
I don't care who you are* that's funny.
*I really don't care who you are.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Our mass media has decided that they are smarter than us
It has determined that we need to be forced fed even more RUSSIAN COLLUSION fairy tales
As for what has been transpiring in Iran, that's not their priority
An even stronger reaction than in the U.S.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Obama spent years threatening to attack Iran for a nuclear weapons program he knew they didn't have
But instead dropped off a plane-load of gold and cash. To find a nuclear weapons program very much alive and well, thank you very much - or did you really imagine North Korea has developed all this nuclear weapon tech on it's own, currently targeted to sit inside the Iranian built missiles they have been flying? How blind do you have to be to miss that link?
Obama spent years threatening to attack Iran for a nuclear weapons program he knew they didn't have
He hasn't sent any new planeloads of gold and cash so he's already ahead by a wide margin. And Trump explicitly supported the protestors, which Obama never did and never will do.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Now if only us Americans can not stick our heads in like we did in the 50s (deposing their democratically elected leader not less) then maybe, just maybe they'll have a chance to modernize and secularize.
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...but I know they're behind it.
The bad news: WW III will suck hard for most of us
It sure would! That's why ahead of Hillary "Destroyer of Libya" Clinton possibly being president, I had refreshed my iodine tablet supply and was ready to watch the world literally end in fire. But now I feel like, that's not nearly as possible as it once was now that the U.S. has stopped supplying and funding the origin of that fire...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
For those that want the sound effect.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
It's the weekend and they can't play Call of Duty. Sucks, man.
How typical of RWNJ fake news. The monies Iran was allowed to access were their own, seized in asset frezes years ago. They were clearly the property of Iran, and the US is still butt hurt because they got thrown out during the revolution, and the embassy seizure, then failed miserable in a rescue attempt. Then your mate right winger Ollie North came up with Iran contra.
Fact is, you continually interfere in countries where it is none of your business, purely for financial advantage, then cry crocodile tears when your actions come home to roost in 9/11.
Suck it up snowflake.
Cutting my internet would get me out on the streets too.
Well, with the internet shut off, they had to send the angry missive SOMEHOW! ;P
So Telegram has begun shutting chats at the behest of government bodies.
Well. That didn't take long.
So much for Telegram being the hard-ass impossible to influence "we never take bribes or listen to threats" messenger.
Fork, anyone?
As for what has been transpiring in Iran, that's not their priority
'specially after O "invested" $150 billion in the Mullah's regime, something a normal Iranian govt might give us for free.
People like the mullahs found the Telegram app to be an ideal tool for the terrorists they promote to exchange encrypted messages. Apparently now it has come back to bite them.
Religion screws everything up.
They all know they are liars (religious people), trying to keep power over people who cannot think for themselves. At least that's the way that Christians and Muslims are. There are a few exceptions, of course, but they are just that, exceptions, IME.
Proper Buddhists don't push their religion onto others. That is against their religion.
Another Corpwhore sells out people in crisis. Mark your future Americans. This is it.
For the benafit of any young ster's, telegram was like an SMS but on paper.
Keep the whitehouse white, vote Trump & Palin 2020.
"Social media has been a tool for documenting the protests and brutal crackdowns against them."
No social networks have been a tool. Media is content while the tool is the network for communication that content on.
Please stop referring everything as social media when you mean social networks or just say "online".
Until we intervened. There are pictures of Iranian girls in short skirts from the 50s. Hell, the war in the middle east was basically caused by the west dividing up the country the way we saw fit ignoring Geo-political boundaries...
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