• sepi@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Well, they’re kinda busy right now getting bombed so I don’t think it’s a priority now.

    Like, sure, at first the blackout was due to repression, yes. But then after a while these two countries started bombing the crap out of Iran, so now it’s a slightly different situation.

    Let’s imagine you have two crackheads smashing your front door: are you gonna be worried about fixing the internet at that very moment?

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      2 days ago

      The Internet isn’t broken it’s turned off

      The reason its turned off was because of protests.

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      Gives the regime a nice scapegoat to help turn the protestors anger at the US and external factors.

      The smart thing would have been for the US to quietly back the revolution and provide them with support to overthrow the regime. But here we are.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        it likely wont happened as they likely quashed the protests with tons of executions, plus they can just turn of the internet to prevent them from organizing further. they did with the murder of the little iranian girl years ago, there wasnt significant pushback since.

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        2 days ago

        Trump said they tried this by routing them weapons through the Kurds and the Kurds just kept the weapons.

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            Hey! Whoa! That’s not fair to claim that trumps book and the bussiness style employed in that book relates to this situation! That’s totally an unfair thing to say! After all, the guy who wrote that book has nothing to do with the way trump does bussiness!

        • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          “i gave weapons to people desperately fighting for survival to give to people desperately fighting for survival. when the didn’t enact my vision, i threw a tantrum”

          what a fuckin’ loser

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      1 day ago

      you guys are aware trump has already admitted to arming dissidents over there, right?

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      At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information

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        2 days ago

        …and keep US propaganda and tech Oligarchs out. Any nation that doesn’t control its information borders, risk ‘regime change’ by the US regime…

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          2 days ago

          Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.

          Would your country like to join the Internet borg?

          • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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            hybrid warfare baybee! the northern empires are real good at it! it’s just mass media manipulation from the 1930s only this time again