#internetblackout — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #internetblackout, aggregated by home.social.
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It is fairly simple to moderate a simplex space or decentralised spaces in general its just you have to think about it differently
The internet at large isn't moderated the way we would like social spaces to be moderated but that doesn't mean that the internet at large is inherently unsafe to use
How did you arrive at mastodon over twitter or bluesky it wasn't because there was some overarching internet moderation that told you this is where you are allowed to be
To moderate a decentralised space you just moderate your corner of it. As soon as you create an apparatus to moderate the whole ecosystem then you have created a fascist tool that will disproportionately be leverageable by people with more compute and infrastructure ie the wealthy
This is exemplified by the fact that signal servers use AWS infra, and amazon is a trump loyalist company who can at an instants notice cut access to signal for everyone as soon as it becomes too inconvenient - internet blackouts are a thing during revolutions so signal blackout isnt beyond the pail and somewhat related but Apple removed the ICE sighting app when it became inconvenient to US government
If the practical limitation of this style of moderation is that you can only afford to moderate semi closed invite only groups then that is still valuable: this is how most activist signal groups work anyway - but even within decentralised systems like matrix or simplex you can still delegate moderation rights with chat permission hierarchies to make moderating larger groups feasible.
#SimpleXChat #SimpleX #Signal #SignalApp #Moderation #Internet #AWS #Trump #Fascism #ICE #ImmimgrationCustomsEnforcement #Apple #Censorship #Revolution #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #AmazonWebServices #Amazon #Matrix #Mastodon #Bluesky #Twitter #InternetBlackout #Appstore
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It is fairly simple to moderate a simplex space or decentralised spaces in general its just you have to think about it differently
The internet at large isn't moderated the way we would like social spaces to be moderated but that doesn't mean that the internet at large is inherently unsafe to use
How did you arrive at mastodon over twitter or bluesky it wasn't because there was some overarching internet moderation that told you this is where you are allowed to be
To moderate a decentralised space you just moderate your corner of it. As soon as you create an apparatus to moderate the whole ecosystem then you have created a fascist tool that will disproportionately be leverageable by people with more compute and infrastructure ie the wealthy
This is exemplified by the fact that signal servers use AWS infra, and amazon is a trump loyalist company who can at an instants notice cut access to signal for everyone as soon as it becomes too inconvenient - internet blackouts are a thing during revolutions so signal blackout isnt beyond the pail and somewhat related but Apple removed the ICE sighting app when it became inconvenient to US government
If the practical limitation of this style of moderation is that you can only afford to moderate semi closed invite only groups then that is still valuable: this is how most activist signal groups work anyway - but even within decentralised systems like matrix or simplex you can still delegate moderation rights with chat permission hierarchies to make moderating larger groups feasible.
#SimpleXChat #SimpleX #Signal #SignalApp #Moderation #Internet #AWS #Trump #Fascism #ICE #ImmimgrationCustomsEnforcement #Apple #Censorship #Revolution #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #AmazonWebServices #Amazon #Matrix #Mastodon #Bluesky #Twitter #InternetBlackout #Appstore
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It is fairly simple to moderate a simplex space or decentralised spaces in general its just you have to think about it differently
The internet at large isn't moderated the way we would like social spaces to be moderated but that doesn't mean that the internet at large is inherently unsafe to use
How did you arrive at mastodon over twitter or bluesky it wasn't because there was some overarching internet moderation that told you this is where you are allowed to be
To moderate a decentralised space you just moderate your corner of it. As soon as you create an apparatus to moderate the whole ecosystem then you have created a fascist tool that will disproportionately be leverageable by people with more compute and infrastructure ie the wealthy
This is exemplified by the fact that signal servers use AWS infra, and amazon is a trump loyalist company who can at an instants notice cut access to signal for everyone as soon as it becomes too inconvenient - internet blackouts are a thing during revolutions so signal blackout isnt beyond the pail and somewhat related but Apple removed the ICE sighting app when it became inconvenient to US government
If the practical limitation of this style of moderation is that you can only afford to moderate semi closed invite only groups then that is still valuable: this is how most activist signal groups work anyway - but even within decentralised systems like matrix or simplex you can still delegate moderation rights with chat permission hierarchies to make moderating larger groups feasible.
#SimpleXChat #SimpleX #Signal #SignalApp #Moderation #Internet #AWS #Trump #Fascism #ICE #ImmimgrationCustomsEnforcement #Apple #Censorship #Revolution #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #AmazonWebServices #Amazon #Matrix #Mastodon #Bluesky #Twitter #InternetBlackout #Appstore
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It is fairly simple to moderate a simplex space or decentralised spaces in general its just you have to think about it differently
The internet at large isn't moderated the way we would like social spaces to be moderated but that doesn't mean that the internet at large is inherently unsafe to use
How did you arrive at mastodon over twitter or bluesky it wasn't because there was some overarching internet moderation that told you this is where you are allowed to be
To moderate a decentralised space you just moderate your corner of it. As soon as you create an apparatus to moderate the whole ecosystem then you have created a fascist tool that will disproportionately be leverageable by people with more compute and infrastructure ie the wealthy
This is exemplified by the fact that signal servers use AWS infra, and amazon is a trump loyalist company who can at an instants notice cut access to signal for everyone as soon as it becomes too inconvenient - internet blackouts are a thing during revolutions so signal blackout isnt beyond the pail and somewhat related but Apple removed the ICE sighting app when it became inconvenient to US government
If the practical limitation of this style of moderation is that you can only afford to moderate semi closed invite only groups then that is still valuable: this is how most activist signal groups work anyway - but even within decentralised systems like matrix or simplex you can still delegate moderation rights with chat permission hierarchies to make moderating larger groups feasible.
#SimpleXChat #SimpleX #Signal #SignalApp #Moderation #Internet #AWS #Trump #Fascism #ICE #ImmimgrationCustomsEnforcement #Apple #Censorship #Revolution #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #AmazonWebServices #Amazon #Matrix #Mastodon #Bluesky #Twitter #InternetBlackout #Appstore
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It is fairly simple to moderate a simplex space or decentralised spaces in general its just you have to think about it differently
The internet at large isn't moderated the way we would like social spaces to be moderated but that doesn't mean that the internet at large is inherently unsafe to use
How did you arrive at mastodon over twitter or bluesky it wasn't because there was some overarching internet moderation that told you this is where you are allowed to be
To moderate a decentralised space you just moderate your corner of it. As soon as you create an apparatus to moderate the whole ecosystem then you have created a fascist tool that will disproportionately be leverageable by people with more compute and infrastructure ie the wealthy
This is exemplified by the fact that signal servers use AWS infra, and amazon is a trump loyalist company who can at an instants notice cut access to signal for everyone as soon as it becomes too inconvenient - internet blackouts are a thing during revolutions so signal blackout isnt beyond the pail and somewhat related but Apple removed the ICE sighting app when it became inconvenient to US government
If the practical limitation of this style of moderation is that you can only afford to moderate semi closed invite only groups then that is still valuable: this is how most activist signal groups work anyway - but even within decentralised systems like matrix or simplex you can still delegate moderation rights with chat permission hierarchies to make moderating larger groups feasible.
#SimpleXChat #SimpleX #Signal #SignalApp #Moderation #Internet #AWS #Trump #Fascism #ICE #ImmimgrationCustomsEnforcement #Apple #Censorship #Revolution #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #AmazonWebServices #Amazon #Matrix #Mastodon #Bluesky #Twitter #InternetBlackout #Appstore
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#Internetblackout tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 57. Sitzung des 21. Deutschen Bundestages am 30.01.2026 auf. Es wurde im Rahmen der Rede von Parsa Marvi (SPD) gesagt.
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Är det #Cloudflare som bråkar igen? Eller har någon startar om #DNS-servern? #AWS #internetBlackout
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Iran restores partial internet access after record months-long blackout
Iran started restoring access to the internet – a sign that the longest shutdown of its kind in…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #internetblackout #internetshutdown #Iran #iranwar #restoreinternet #US-IsraelwaronIran
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Iran blocked internet access for over 2,000 hours. 🚫🌐 Traveling from Tehran to Uganda without a car wouldn't take that long. 🚶♂️🇮🇷➡️🇺🇬
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Irankrieg: Internet‑Blackout im Iran dauert seit dem 28. Feb. über 1.000 Stunden – die Bevölkerung bleibt weitgehend offline, nur wenige privilegierte Adressen sind erreichbar. ⌛️📵🌐 #Iran #InternetBlackout #Irankrieg https://www.golem.de/news/irankrieg-iranischer-internet-black-out-dauert-ueber-1-000-stunden-2604-207491.html
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"By finding the exact vocabulary for grief, I was trying to “wash” the faces of those falling in the streets just blocks away, reclaiming them from the system’s indifference." —Miadd Banki for Public Books
https://www.publicbooks.org/they-would-not-dream-of-flowers-translating-through-the-tehran-blackout/
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Is this where we’re headed too? Speculation that recent outages in Russia were tests for unplugging from internet & global community (similar to what’s already happening in Iran, also China). Population response: “Local media reported that retailers recorded a quick surge in demand for pagers, portable radios, stationary phones, media players and road maps, as the shutdowns gripped the capital.”
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“Mohiuddin Ahmed, associate professor in cybersecurity at Adelaide University … said internet blackouts could become a "successful" strategy for governments to control domestic political unrest.
"Internet blackouts are put in place so that everyday people can't know what's going on in the rest of the world." “https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/moscow-internet-shutdown-russia-test-censorship/69rjp4wai
#Russia #MoscowInternetOutages #InternetBlackout #InternetOutages
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#Internetblackout tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 57. Sitzung des 21. Deutschen Bundestages am 30.01.2026 auf. Es wurde im Rahmen der Rede von Parsa Marvi (SPD) gesagt.
Video: https://de.openparliament.tv/media/DE-0210057051?q=Internetblackout
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I'm trying to think how I would block simplex and the first thing that came to mind was looking up all known simplex servers and adding them to a block list, can't the exact same thing be done to chatmail servers?
I'm aware tor entry nodes can be added to a block list. I wish more projects would consider I2P, I wish it was more known in general it should fix the issue of blocking entry nodes/servers because everyone is a node, add traffic obfuscation on top of that and it should have been safe from the Iran internet blackout
#PSA #E2EE #Tor #I2P #Iran #InternetBlackout #Censorship #SimpleX #DeltaChat
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So, I’m thinking about some kind of solution to selfhost or implement that would allow us to receive things like RSS feeds or news from Telegram channels. To be clear, when they shut down international traffic, there is no way to connect using normal protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, etc.
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During the complete internet blackout in Iran, one of the most important things we missed was a way to receive news. The blockage still continues, it’s a little easier now to access the international internet, but it is still whitelisted.
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“Direct-to-cell satellite internet can bypass censorship and internet shutdowns, connecting ordinary smartphones directly to satellites—no special equipment needed. This technology could save lives in Iran and beyond.”
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When the Islamic Republic silences its people with internet blackouts, it should not be given a platform for propaganda. NetBlocks is right to demand transparency from @WSJ: how was the op-ed submitted, and why was the opposition denied equal access? Those who violate universal human rights must not be allowed to lie unchallenged.
#Iran #HumanRights #InternetBlackout #MediaEthics #NetBlocks #WSJ #Censorship #FreedomOfExpression #Accountability #iranprotests
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Battles Over #Truth Rage Online Amid Iran’s #InternetBlackout
The shutdown of online discourse within #Iran has allowed both the government and its critics to flood #socialMedia outside the country with #disinformation campaigns and fake images.
#deepfakes #internethttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/iran-internet-blackout-protests-disinformation.html
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A quite interesting source for updates about the internet blackout and censorship in Iran is this Github issue: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/561
The last post includes a graph showing a increasing amount of DNS TXT queries which probably are used for tunneling.
It's great that some people found a way to at least use the internet at probably low speeds but at the same time this is quite frightening because this could mean the internet won't come back as before.
#Iran #Censorship #internetblackout #internetblackoutprotest
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Look, if you are interested in #DigitalSovereignty it is important to realise that the #Iran #InternetBlackout is not really that. It is not the sort of damaging loss of services we have seen recently with #Crowdstrike or #Cloudflare.
The National Information Network of Iran or #IranianIntranet is structured so that they can cut the cables to the outside world and (most) Iranian digital services continue to function. (1/3)
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90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
https://state-of-iranblackout.whisper.security/
#HackerNews #90Mpeople #118HoursofSilence #InternetBlackout #IranCensorship #DigitalSilence
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An ecosystem of smuggled tech holds Iran’s last link to the outside world
> Despite internet blackout, a small number of Iranians are risking their lives to share messages as protests continue
> By far the most significant part of this system are Starlink terminals [...]
Then just lets hope the billionaire in charge does keepn it open and does not give geolocations to Iran's government.
#iran #internetblackout #internet #cencorship #electronicwarfare
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Thanks for reminding me about the binary sharing thing thats awesome. I also have to imagine that briar group chats will be quicker and more convenient to organise groups of people than ad hoc communication.
Ideally meshtastic should one day allow global communication; I've heard that a single low power radio node has kilometers of range
#FLOSS #PSA #Privacy #Anonymity #E2EE #Briar #BriarProject #BriarMessenger #Meshtastic #Iran #Protest #InternetBlackout
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Yeah its too late to set up now. Mestastic, when it can be set up, can provide a more semi permanent network than briar but its just for text messages its too slow for anything else
My hope is that people in all countries will realise that it can happen there too and prepare accordingly
#FLOSS #E2EE #PSA #Privacy #Anonymity #Iran #Protest #InternetBlackout #Meshtastic #Briar
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🚨 BREAKING: Authoritarian regime plays the "blame the West" card while pulling the old "Internet blackout" trick 🌐🔌. Meanwhile, citizens just trying to Google "how to fix my insane government" get 404 errors. 🙃
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protests-internet-blackout-khamenei-vows-not-back-down-trump-threat/ #Authoritarianism #InternetBlackout #BlameTheWest #FreedomOfSpeech #DigitalResistance #HackerNews #ngated