Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists

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• vpol@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Russia next?

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Russia’s already had this plan in the works for years. They call it “Sovereign internet”.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not really the thing, it’s more about censorship than full autonomy.

      I mean, if not for sanctions preventing one from using most (usually all) payment methods from Russia, such a disconnection would cause problems.

      Now it won’t, so yeah, living in Russia I pretty much can believe that even waking up one day in a countrywide version of Elektrostal town local forum instead of the Internet is possible.

      In that case I’m packing what stuff I need and leaving for any direction open. If there will be directions open.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    China too.

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    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you not aware of the great firewall?

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    • vpol@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      China kinda did already. But they could make it official.

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• dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Everyday Iranians know what the world outside is like. They can’t suddenly become a black box kike North Korea. But maybe a few decades of murdering protesters, like mowing the grass, will allow them to limp along in the East German model. Where people know what is available outside but are too afraid and demoralized to make an organized resistance

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• thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’ll probably still get pornhub though, right?

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All of these repressive regimes are always suppressing porn. I know china takes a hard line against it. Iran must as well given their hardcore religious sensibilities.

    The US is getting more authoritarian too and we are cutting off porn, I see a pattern here.

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s all about keeping up the population so there are lots of new soldiers.

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’ll probably still get pornhub though, right?

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• Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll bet sales in mesh networking products is about to skyrocket. Þis could be the test case which popularizes mesh.

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  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    P2P mesh systems aren’t a replacement for a loss of global internet connectivity from domestic ISPs, but satellite internet can be.

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    • Drew1718@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except that the Iranian government has also been jamming satellite internet.

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    • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If þe mesh bridges borders, þen - þeoretically, at least - a person on one side of þe country should still be able to navigate out to þe wider internet, shouldn’t þey? You need only a contiguous mesh across and into a free(er?) country, right?

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    • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not if Elmo owns all the sattelites, then it won’t be the Internet.

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    • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Satellite internet is not a good option, it’s easy to block and easy to spot people using it.

      Maintaining links to the global Internet is easier to do if you’re hiding your transmission inside other things, but that’s easier said than done.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How an authoritarian government can counter this:

    Step 1: Make it illegal to use such devicea without a license.
    Step 2: Refuse to issue radio licenses except to maybe law enforcement and high ranking governmwnt officials
    Step 3: Triangulate “unauthorized users”
    Step 4: Mass arrests

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    • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can hide an intermittent mesh networking device in anything with a solar panel, it’s not that easy to triangulate users if the communications are intermittent (although that itself doesn’t play nicely with consumer devices.

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    • Allah@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      then we gotta work on DIY 3d printers then

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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Piss?

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    • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That character is called a thorn and is pronounced as a “th” sound. It’s from Old English and fell out of use iirc, but some people like to use it

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly, that’s not a half bad idea at this point. Maybe we all should.

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