How Millions of Iranians Are Evading Internet Censors (msn.com) 48
schwit1 quotes the Wall Street Journal:
Authorities in Tehran have ratcheted up their policing of the internet in the past week and a half, part of an attempt to stamp out the most far-reaching protests in Iran since 2009. But the crackdown is driving millions of Iranians to tech tools that can help them evade censors, according to activists and developers of the tools. Some of the tools were attracting three or four times more unique users a day than they were before the internet crackdown, potentially weakening government efforts to control access to information online. "By the time they wake up, the government will have lost control of the internet," said Mehdi Yahyanejad, executive director of NetFreedom Pioneers, a California-based technology nonprofit that largely focuses on Iran and develops educational and freedom of information tools.
Wired calls it "the biggest protest movement in Iran since the 2009 Green Movement uprising," criticing tech companies which "continue to deny services to Iranians that could be crucial to free and open communications."
Wired calls it "the biggest protest movement in Iran since the 2009 Green Movement uprising," criticing tech companies which "continue to deny services to Iranians that could be crucial to free and open communications."
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Go ahead chump.
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Goddam mods are up-voting a dig at Obama?
Take the fucking political bias (any at all) out or I'm going dark.
No wonder we have so many goddam AC.
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Look, wake up to yourselves. Nobody buys the propaganda any more. What Trump says is exactly what the US has done for decades. Democracy and justice, nope, turning countries into shit holes that US corporations can ruthlessly exploit, stealing the resources and using slave labour to do it. A straight up continuation of imperialistic policies from the monarchists, unlike the Belgies cutting off hands the US fires missiles from drones into unsuspecting populations when their obedience quotient falls short.
Tr
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You can type while vomiting.
We get it.
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Thanks.
You and GP got down-modded.
I'm not asking for deletion of comments.
I'm just asking for filtering out shitholes like you and, sometimes, like me.
Sometimes I lash out in anger at that motherfucking pussy-grabbing orange-haired white nationalist sexual predator with an IQ slightly higher than asphalt and I respect the moderators who pound me into the dirt.
Re:Give that country nuclear weapons! (Score:4, Insightful)
If you want to look for crazy mullahs, you're looking at the wrong muslim state. Yes, the Iran is vocal and you get to hear a lot about their rhetoric, but if you're looking for funding for Islamist schools, Islamist mosques and yes, Islamist terrorists, you should be looking for the only country on this planet that still doesn't have a name and is basically called "The land of family Saud".
Funny how our politicians never seem to have any kind of problem with this particular country and how they even used whatever political influence necessary to stop investigations against this country whenever the trail to terrorist activities gets too hot to ignore anymore. No matter what side of the political fence they might be sitting on.
Kids (Score:3)
How can they protect the Iranian children if they keep challenging attempts to do so?
Really? (Score:2)
So, millions of Iranians are evading internet blocks and such. In a place where you can go to jail (or be executed) for doing so....
And we're telling the Iranian government how it's being done???
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I'm sure it's no secret HOW it's being done.
STFU (Score:2, Insightful)
> . "By the time they wake up, the government will have lost control of the internet," said Mehdi Yahyanejad, executive director of NetFreedom Pioneers, a California-based technology nonprofit that largely focuses on Iran and develops educational and freedom of information tools.
Not if you keep blabbing about it, dumb ass.
Conversely, don't. (Score:3)
It's free to use and free of ads and malware - I assume that "Psiphon" isn't, since they mention how much government crackdowns help their marketing.
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What harm? Fuckers don't have the internet. Read TFA.
Re:Iran and China (Score:4, Informative)
But that sculpture would have been too costly if made here.
Indeed. It sure is nice to have millions of disposable Asians living and working in an ecological hellhole — conveniently placed far away from the environment on the opposite side of the planet — to save you money. Especially since it means you don't have to contribute to the livelihood of any unskilled deplorables in your own country while collecting your baubles. Win win.
Until the wires are cut (Score:1)
Take over all telecommunication providers in the country and simply stop outside network access of any kind. Get caught trying to work around it, death penalty.
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Take over all telecommunication providers in the country and simply stop outside network access of any kind. Get caught trying to work around it, death penalty.
If the Iranian government cracks down hard enough, millions of people who are relatively peaceful right now just might decide they've had enough of being butchered.
Does the name Custer right a bell, by chance?
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If the Iranian government cracks down hard enough, millions of people who are relatively peaceful right now just might decide they've had enough of being butchered.
Does the name Custer right a bell, by chance?
Custer? Why even move out of Iran, that is basically a one-line summary of what happened there in 1979 [wikipedia.org].
Hey Wired - it's the law. (Score:2)
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Then its 2, 3, 4 hops from that account.
Voice prints, advanced facial recognition will get many protesters.
The western embassies, NGO's and other pro democracy groups pushing for protests need the "internet" to get the protesters protesting for the optics of the 24h news cycle.
No internet and no coordination. But all the protesters are been tracked on the internet
An interesting problem. How to build national protests but not hav
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Right, because there's absolutely no way could any actual Iranians might want to protest their government's actions.
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Small groups of motivated protesters are too easy to contain. So outside funding, planning and support has to help guide national moments.
Colour revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] have been well studied by most nations police and security services over
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Because Lebanon are not under "blanket sanctions" list, but specific entities (as in many others) is sanctioned.
The only exception is that US companies not allowed to ship any weapons to Lebanon, unless it is Lebanese Army.
Just FYI.
Uneven judgement of situations (Score:2)
Tunisia is currently experiencing a popular uprising (again) and violent repression of protesters (again) based on similar economic motivations to Iran but you don't hear the hawks in Washington calling for regime change there. Why is that?
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For starters, Tunisia isn't an authoritarian theocracy hell-bent on exporting its system to its neighbours and on building nukes to facilitate that goal.
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For endings, the subject is Iran.
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How much oil does Tunisia export?
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Personally, I think it has more to do with Shiite and Sunnite Islam and a particular other country that just so happens to be the "leader" of the competing flavor of cool-aid that our politicians for some odd reason really love despite being the source of pretty much all terrorism in the past 30 years, but that's my pet theory.
The reason for success is... (Score:3)
... technological backwardness of government, not excellence of tools or technological awareness of "progressive" masses.
Russia and China have successfully censored their Internet portions. That's a fact. There is near-to-zero opposition in information sphere within Russia and all the activists I have been reading are confined to their Western audiences from their Western blogs.