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  1. 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
    newsbeep.com/558795/

  2. Iran blocked internet access for over 2,000 hours. 🚫🌐 Traveling from Tehran to Uganda without a car wouldn't take that long. 🚶‍♂️🇮🇷➡️🇺🇬
    #Iran #InternetBlackout #Netblocks

  3. Iran blocked internet access for over 2,000 hours. 🚫🌐 Traveling from Tehran to Uganda without a car wouldn't take that long. 🚶‍♂️🇮🇷➡️🇺🇬
    #Iran #InternetBlackout #Netblocks

  4. 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 golem.de/news/irankrieg-iranis

  5. 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 golem.de/news/irankrieg-iranis

  6. "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

    publicbooks.org/they-would-not

    #Iran #InternetBlackout #Translation

  7. "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

    publicbooks.org/they-would-not

    #Iran #InternetBlackout #Translation

  8. 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.”

    “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." “

    sbs.com.au/news/article/moscow

    #Russia #MoscowInternetOutages #InternetBlackout #InternetOutages
    #controlDomesticUnrest #RussianPolitics

  9. 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.”

    “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." “

    sbs.com.au/news/article/moscow

    #Russia #MoscowInternetOutages #InternetBlackout #InternetOutages
    #controlDomesticUnrest #RussianPolitics

  10. #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: de.openparliament.tv/media/DE-

  11. #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: de.openparliament.tv/media/DE-

  12. @arcanechat

    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

  13. @arcanechat

    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

  14. 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.
    Do you have any ideas about this?

  15. 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.
    Do you have any ideas about this?

    #Iran #InternetShutdown #InternetBlackout #IranProtests

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

    #Iran #InternetShutdown #InternetBlackout #IranProtests

  18. “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.”

    #d2c #iran #internetblackout
    direct2cell.org/

  19. “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.”

    #d2c #iran #internetblackout
    direct2cell.org/

  20. EIL: In Iran dauert der Internet-Ausfall nun 348 Stunden an. #Iran #Internetblackout

  21. 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.

    x.com/netblocks/status/2013998

    #Iran #HumanRights #InternetBlackout #MediaEthics #NetBlocks #WSJ #Censorship #FreedomOfExpression #Accountability #iranprotests

  22. 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.

    x.com/netblocks/status/2013998

    #Iran #HumanRights #InternetBlackout #MediaEthics #NetBlocks #WSJ #Censorship #FreedomOfExpression #Accountability #iranprotests

  23. 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 #internet

    nytimes.com/2026/01/16/busines

  24. 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 #internet

    nytimes.com/2026/01/16/busines

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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)

  28. 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)

  29. An ecosystem of smuggled tech holds Iran’s last link to the outside world

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

    > 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

  30. An ecosystem of smuggled tech holds Iran’s last link to the outside world

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

    > 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

  31. @tomjennings @hpk @delta

    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

  32. @tomjennings @hpk @delta

    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

  33. Nationwide protests challenge Iran's theocratic system. More than 116 people have been killed and over 2600 detained, according to activists. Meanwhile, US is reportedly planning an airstrike on Iran. english.mathrubhumi.com/news/w #Iran #Iranprotests #IranNews #InternetBlackout #WorldNews

  34. @hpk @delta

    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

  35. @hpk @delta

    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

  36. Iran is witnessing a second consecutive night of large-scale protests across major cities. The government has imposed an internet blackout and deployed extensive security forces, yet demonstrators are using satellite links, mesh networks and offline coordination to keep the movement alive. This highlights the growing importance of digital resilience in civic action. - Powered by FG #IranProtests #InternetBlackout #DigitalActivism #HumanRights

  37. 🚨 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. 🙃
    cbsnews.com/news/iran-protests #Authoritarianism #InternetBlackout #BlameTheWest #FreedomOfSpeech #DigitalResistance #HackerNews #ngated

  38. 🚨 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. 🙃
    cbsnews.com/news/iran-protests #Authoritarianism #InternetBlackout #BlameTheWest #FreedomOfSpeech #DigitalResistance #HackerNews #ngated

  39. Lees tip -> Trump waarschuwt Iran bij dodelijke protesten: VS kan ingrijpen | Trump waarschuwt Iran niet te doden bij protesten; enorme economische protesten verspreiden zich landelijk en internethinder neemt toe. | #economischeonrust #internetblackout #Iran #Irancrisis #Protesten #trump #VerenigdeStaten |

    hbpmedia.nl/trump-waarschuwt-i

  40. Tehran, Babol, Mashad, Hamadan, Kermanshah...and many more cities: There are masses on the street tonight all over #Iran. At the same time the regime has once again shut down the internet in order to prevent information to get in and out of the country. We know from previous protests that they kill the people in silence and darkness. Please be the voice of the brave Iranians- they are risking their lives for freedom.

    #Iranrevolution #internetblackout #betheirvoice #BarayeAzadi

  41. Tehran, Babol, Mashad, Hamadan, Kermanshah...and many more cities: There are masses on the street tonight all over #Iran. At the same time the regime has once again shut down the internet in order to prevent information to get in and out of the country. We know from previous protests that they kill the people in silence and darkness. Please be the voice of the brave Iranians- they are risking their lives for freedom.

    #Iranrevolution #internetblackout #betheirvoice #BarayeAzadi

  42. The recent internet disruptions in Bangladesh have now ended, and just an hour ago, the advisor of the interim government took the oath of office. I've shut down all public proxy servers I was running since regular VPNs like ProtonVPN are functioning fine now. I'll also be shutting down my Akkoma instance at social.mitexleo.one, as I've transitioned to using Mastodon.

    Unfortunately, I won't be able to work full-time, part-time, or take on any freelance jobs due to my college exams and the need to prepare for university admissions. This means I'll have to minimize my living expenses, and I won't have any income for at least the next 4-5 months. However, I'll continue to run our public Fediverse instance, buddyverse.one, for as long as possible.

    My personal instance also needs an upgrade, as I'm getting a lot of interaction from you all—boosts, likes, and replies! Both my Akkoma and Mastodon instances see CPU and RAM usage spike to 100% when this happens since I'm running on a $5 Linode plan. The current cost for running my Mastodon instance is $10/month (Nanode + Linode Object Storage), and for Buddyverse.one, it's just $5/month. This is a significant reduction from the more than $100/month I used to spend!

    I plan to operate a proxy and VPN server again soon. I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported me financially and inspired me to fight against censorship in Bangladesh during these challenging times. I'll be forever grateful to you all. 💛

    I also plan to work for the poor, minorities, and those who need our help in the future. The Fediverse has truly transformed my life—I’ve never had so much meaningful discussion or interaction, even offline, let alone on Facebook or Twitter. I know I act dumb sometimes, and I ask for your forgiveness for that. Please don't hesitate to let me know if I ever do something wrong or hurt you in any way. I'm open to change.

    #fediverse #mastodon #StudentMovement #StepDownHasina #Bangladesh #Privacy #Love #Kindness #ThankYouFedi #SaveBangladeshiStudents #ReformBangladesh #USA #EU #UK #InternetBlackout #Netblocks

  43. The recent internet disruptions in Bangladesh have now ended, and just an hour ago, the advisor of the interim government took the oath of office. I've shut down all public proxy servers I was running since regular VPNs like ProtonVPN are functioning fine now. I'll also be shutting down my Akkoma instance at social.mitexleo.one, as I've transitioned to using Mastodon.

    Unfortunately, I won't be able to work full-time, part-time, or take on any freelance jobs due to my college exams and the need to prepare for university admissions. This means I'll have to minimize my living expenses, and I won't have any income for at least the next 4-5 months. However, I'll continue to run our public Fediverse instance, buddyverse.one, for as long as possible.

    My personal instance also needs an upgrade, as I'm getting a lot of interaction from you all—boosts, likes, and replies! Both my Akkoma and Mastodon instances see CPU and RAM usage spike to 100% when this happens since I'm running on a $5 Linode plan. The current cost for running my Mastodon instance is $10/month (Nanode + Linode Object Storage), and for Buddyverse.one, it's just $5/month. This is a significant reduction from the more than $100/month I used to spend!

    I plan to operate a proxy and VPN server again soon. I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported me financially and inspired me to fight against censorship in Bangladesh during these challenging times. I'll be forever grateful to you all. 💛

    I also plan to work for the poor, minorities, and those who need our help in the future. The Fediverse has truly transformed my life—I’ve never had so much meaningful discussion or interaction, even offline, let alone on Facebook or Twitter. I know I act dumb sometimes, and I ask for your forgiveness for that. Please don't hesitate to let me know if I ever do something wrong or hurt you in any way. I'm open to change.

    #fediverse #mastodon #StudentMovement #StepDownHasina #Bangladesh #Privacy #Love #Kindness #ThankYouFedi #SaveBangladeshiStudents #ReformBangladesh #USA #EU #UK #InternetBlackout #Netblocks