A Time source is alleging hundreds of protestor deaths in Tehran[0]. It's a repeat of 2019 [1]; the network blocks aren't incidental, it's their purpose to create cover for coordinating massacres.
> "A Tehran doctor told TIME on condition of anonymity that just six hospitals in the capital had recorded at least 217 protester deaths, “most by live ammunition.”"
I'd guess you can also easily track down star link terminals via drones (fly high up until you find a signal, then go lower while keeping the signal active)
I've always thought the world needs a project to provide guerrilla internet connectivity to a large area using cheap, common hardware like a Raspberry Pi for situations like these which are increasingly common.
Basically a 12V battery-powered Wifi+3G(+Wimax maybe) antenna for clients and an outbound Ethernet port to plug to some illegal internet socket. Make it open-source, able to be built with a little ingenuity and low cost.
Surely the real cost of such a device is not the hardware or the software but the organizational effort required to install it and make it useful without anyone involved getting caught.
Surely governments will not see any issues with this project whatsoever.
Though in US I think you can try publishing the code and blueprints as a book and claim the First Amendment, following the PGP story. May or may not work.
It's a blackout! meaning "IP" doesn't work any more. IP aside, even cell network and landline barely work and people can not call each other or send a SMS!
There is a case to be made that overcoming oppression is extremely hard to achieve in populations over 50 million. Are there any successful examples where this has happened?
The Soviet Union had a population larger than the United States' at the time of its collapse. North of 100 million people were liberated virtually overnight from direct Russian rule, from USSR states (over 50 million in Ukraine alone); and another 100+ million from Russian-backed communist governments in Warsaw Pact states (40 million in Poland alone).
British India (three modern states) had a population of 400 million at the time of its independence from Britain. That was famously a coordinated, nation-wide movement.
Indonesia was around 200 million people at the end of the Suharto dictatorship and its transition towards democracy.
I think this is one of the arguments for the 2nd amendment that too often gets overlooked. Overthrowing the government is a lot easier if the populace is legally armed AND the government doesn't know who owns what or how many guns. Which is why it is that way specifically here in the US.
X have clips and videos posted as the few social networks that have it. This content is not suitable for instagram or facebook.
SVT (my swedish news) have had segments on this with reporters, not in the country, but she is in Lebanon. She is arab biased, but they are reporting on it.
Asmongold (worlds largest youtuber right now and an Elon fan) is one of the few having long 45min-2h segments about the Iran protests on his stream right now?
But you are so blind your kneejerk reaction is to blame Elon Musk lmao
That old maxim - the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it - no longer true unfortunately.
Larger and larger swathes of the world population are coming under the purview of governments and corporations that are technologically strangling the free flow of information over the intertubes. China, Russia, India, Iran, UK, US (corporations a.t.m.) are the prominent examples.
Just having a resilient software stack is no longer sufficient. An open source hardware stack AND infrastructure is critical.
Eventually there will be need for an open source manufacturing base as well. Even if it is only at the level of 1980s computing, that is better than nothing.
The world needs some big thinkers to start working on this yesterday. A civ resilient project to avoid the dystopian futures or something like the dark ages coming back.
So we are censoring comments we don't like? Iran? No, right here in the West
Comment in question:
It's ironic to watch the contradictions unfold
On one hand, nobody actually knows what's happening in Iran, yet everyone has a rock solid opinion, complete with intricate details, as if they'd just left a classified briefing
On the other hand, those same confident voices all want the same thing: a leader who'll privatize Iran's oil for Western companies, align with US policy, open markets to Western finance, and prioritize defense contracts over local development
Funny how that works
Some random farmer from Ohio is obsessed with Iran for some reason
It's as simple as: Iranians don't want a theocratic dictatorship that oppresses women and funds terrorism worldwide. Almost anything is better than Iran's current government so anyone who loves freedom even a tiny bit should cheer them on.
Iran was executing women for not wearing hats. That is what the flyover people around me know about Iran and is enough for them to think they'd be OK with the theocratic regime gone.
The vast majority of people cheering on Iranian protesters don’t know anything about Ian’s oil. The see people in the street protesting their theocratic regime and they cheer them on. To imagine that these voices are all just oil puppets is the stuff of leftist group think.
Your comment wasn’t censored, your fellow readers flagged it because they thought it was bullshit.
Riiiiiiiiight. It's fine for the US to be opposed to what ICE is doing, but Iranians cannot oppose their government for doing similar and worse things to them? They can't decide they've had enough on their own, without the CIA telling them they should be mad?
And why not? Do you think they're too dumb to figure out that they should be mad? Or that they deserve to live in such conditions?
Do you realize how patronizing you're being? How much you're denying them agency?
I remember hearing a report that Iran was making real progress towards safety and freedom before the war on terror led them to appoint strong men to keep them safe.
You may be referring to Khatami’s Reforms, nevertheless. Conservative factions in Iran, including the Revolutionary Guard and unelected institutions like the Guardian Council, resisted Khatami’s reforms. They shut down reformist newspapers, jailed activists, and blocked progressive legislation. The reformist movement was gradually smothered, and by 2005, the hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president, reversing many of Khatami’s policies.
The loopback to "its all the wests fault anyhow" is so tiresome from people like you.
"appoint" lmao
You think since the revolution in 1979 any election has been real? Yes in b4 the Shaha was bad too. etc. waah waah.
At some point, you grow up and pick a side. Ruissia, Iran, China and rouge states, vs The West, EU and USA.
Iran is the world’s top state sponsor of terror, per the US State Department. The IRGC and Quds Force fund, arm, and direct groups like Hezbollah ($700M/year), Hamas, Houthis, and Iraqi militias. They’ve been linked to assassinations (e.g., 2011 Saudi ambassador plot), bombings (Bulgaria 2012), and cyberattacks on US/EU infrastructure. Even during economic crises, Tehran spends ~$1B annually on proxies. Recent examples: UK arrested Iranians in 2025 for plotting attacks on Israeli sites (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2wqy5ejdjo); Houthis’ Red Sea strikes use Iranian drones/missiles. Sanctions and court rulings (Khobar Towers, 9/11 facilitation) confirm their role.
I'm going to add what I have found to answer my own question. I have found that this appears to be so divisive a subject that an internet discussion is impossible without immediate mud-slinging. The articles I have found are overtly biased in one direction or another. So I turned to wikipedia...
Read for yourself and decide 1) was Khatami a reformer, helping to make Iran a better place. I mean relatively better of course!
If you don't think he was, exit now. Now assuming you think he was, the question is did the war on terror hinder him. I'm not an academic but when the sources are obviously biased it can be instructive to see what one side is prepared to concede about the other.
Here is paper written for the US National Intelligence Committee that warns this may be an outcome
"Two tentative, and partly contradictory, projections suggest themselves: (a) the more
intense and widespread our counter-terror campaign within the Middle East, the more
ammunition will the conservatives have to stoke anti-US sentiment within Iran and siphon
support away from the reformist camp; "
And here is an article trying to refute that Khatami was hampered by the war on terror, by the Washington Institute for Near East policy which wikipedia says, "is a pro-Israel American think tank"
Which firmly establishes that American politicians and media people were pushing the line that the Axis of Evil speech had hampered Khatami in reforming Iran. Therefore I deduce that some people were indeed stating this as a truth at the time from within mainstream America, and it is not just an anti-american conspiracy. The article tries to refute it of course, but in doing so acknowledges that it is an opinion held at the time. You read, you decide.
perihelions|1 month ago
[0] https://time.com/7345092/iran-protests-death-toll-regime-cra...
> "A Tehran doctor told TIME on condition of anonymity that just six hospitals in the capital had recorded at least 217 protester deaths, “most by live ammunition.”"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–2020_Iranian_protests
lostlogin|1 month ago
9dev|1 month ago
nomilk|1 month ago
> Starlink was being jammed, Rashidi said, although the extent varied from one neighbourhood to another.
[0] https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/2009729660792258805
luke5441|1 month ago
sph|1 month ago
Basically a 12V battery-powered Wifi+3G(+Wimax maybe) antenna for clients and an outbound Ethernet port to plug to some illegal internet socket. Make it open-source, able to be built with a little ingenuity and low cost.
ninalanyon|1 month ago
femto|1 month ago
https://www.open-mesh.org/
https://briarproject.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_ad_hoc_network
The original but now defunct?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serval_Project
unknown|1 month ago
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alexey-salmin|1 month ago
Though in US I think you can try publishing the code and blueprints as a book and claim the First Amendment, following the PGP story. May or may not work.
Telemakhos|1 month ago
IlikeMadison|1 month ago
tim333|1 month ago
heraldgeezer|1 month ago
https://snowflake.torproject.org/
Yaser_Amiri|1 month ago
ninjagoo|1 month ago
perihelions|1 month ago
British India (three modern states) had a population of 400 million at the time of its independence from Britain. That was famously a coordinated, nation-wide movement.
Indonesia was around 200 million people at the end of the Suharto dictatorship and its transition towards democracy.
johng|1 month ago
ChrisArchitect|1 month ago
Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542683
lucasRW|1 month ago
Thanks Elon.
heraldgeezer|1 month ago
Elon?
How is this Elons fault?
Starlink is the only way to get internet in Iran.
X have clips and videos posted as the few social networks that have it. This content is not suitable for instagram or facebook.
SVT (my swedish news) have had segments on this with reporters, not in the country, but she is in Lebanon. She is arab biased, but they are reporting on it.
Asmongold (worlds largest youtuber right now and an Elon fan) is one of the few having long 45min-2h segments about the Iran protests on his stream right now?
But you are so blind your kneejerk reaction is to blame Elon Musk lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v61Md-uIYQg
ninjagoo|1 month ago
Larger and larger swathes of the world population are coming under the purview of governments and corporations that are technologically strangling the free flow of information over the intertubes. China, Russia, India, Iran, UK, US (corporations a.t.m.) are the prominent examples.
Just having a resilient software stack is no longer sufficient. An open source hardware stack AND infrastructure is critical.
Eventually there will be need for an open source manufacturing base as well. Even if it is only at the level of 1980s computing, that is better than nothing.
The world needs some big thinkers to start working on this yesterday. A civ resilient project to avoid the dystopian futures or something like the dark ages coming back.
ninjagoo|1 month ago
WhereIsTheTruth|1 month ago
Comment in question:
It's ironic to watch the contradictions unfold
On one hand, nobody actually knows what's happening in Iran, yet everyone has a rock solid opinion, complete with intricate details, as if they'd just left a classified briefing
On the other hand, those same confident voices all want the same thing: a leader who'll privatize Iran's oil for Western companies, align with US policy, open markets to Western finance, and prioritize defense contracts over local development
Funny how that works
Some random farmer from Ohio is obsessed with Iran for some reason
dismalaf|1 month ago
_DeadFred_|1 month ago
appreciatorBus|1 month ago
Your comment wasn’t censored, your fellow readers flagged it because they thought it was bullshit.
kleptomaniacs|1 month ago
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AnimalMuppet|1 month ago
And why not? Do you think they're too dumb to figure out that they should be mad? Or that they deserve to live in such conditions?
Do you realize how patronizing you're being? How much you're denying them agency?
WhereIsTheTruth|1 month ago
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jimnotgym|1 month ago
Does anyone know enough to comment?
heraldgeezer|1 month ago
The loopback to "its all the wests fault anyhow" is so tiresome from people like you.
"appoint" lmao
You think since the revolution in 1979 any election has been real? Yes in b4 the Shaha was bad too. etc. waah waah.
At some point, you grow up and pick a side. Ruissia, Iran, China and rouge states, vs The West, EU and USA.
Iran is the world’s top state sponsor of terror, per the US State Department. The IRGC and Quds Force fund, arm, and direct groups like Hezbollah ($700M/year), Hamas, Houthis, and Iraqi militias. They’ve been linked to assassinations (e.g., 2011 Saudi ambassador plot), bombings (Bulgaria 2012), and cyberattacks on US/EU infrastructure. Even during economic crises, Tehran spends ~$1B annually on proxies. Recent examples: UK arrested Iranians in 2025 for plotting attacks on Israeli sites (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2wqy5ejdjo); Houthis’ Red Sea strikes use Iranian drones/missiles. Sanctions and court rulings (Khobar Towers, 9/11 facilitation) confirm their role.
terminalshort|1 month ago
jimnotgym|1 month ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Khatami
Read for yourself and decide 1) was Khatami a reformer, helping to make Iran a better place. I mean relatively better of course!
If you don't think he was, exit now. Now assuming you think he was, the question is did the war on terror hinder him. I'm not an academic but when the sources are obviously biased it can be instructive to see what one side is prepared to concede about the other.
Here is paper written for the US National Intelligence Committee that warns this may be an outcome
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/warterror_2001.pdf
"Two tentative, and partly contradictory, projections suggest themselves: (a) the more intense and widespread our counter-terror campaign within the Middle East, the more ammunition will the conservatives have to stoke anti-US sentiment within Iran and siphon support away from the reformist camp; "
And here is an article trying to refute that Khatami was hampered by the war on terror, by the Washington Institute for Near East policy which wikipedia says, "is a pro-Israel American think tank"
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/khatami-...
Which firmly establishes that American politicians and media people were pushing the line that the Axis of Evil speech had hampered Khatami in reforming Iran. Therefore I deduce that some people were indeed stating this as a truth at the time from within mainstream America, and it is not just an anti-american conspiracy. The article tries to refute it of course, but in doing so acknowledges that it is an opinion held at the time. You read, you decide.