How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters
Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out
Financial Times
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Free Starlink from SpaceX a critical part of getting information on Iran government murders out into the public... ...and not a peep from the Dems about how amazing it is a homegrown American company in SpaceX is helping the Iranian people free themselves from evil leaders.
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Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue
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Iran: CBS NEWS IS NOW REPORTING 12000-20000 killed.
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Musk Offers Free Starlink in Iran as Internet Blackout Persists - Bloomberg
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Musk Offers Free Starlink in Iran as Internet Blackout Persists - Bloomberg
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Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue
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CBS NEWS IS NOW REPORTING 12000-20000.
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Over 12,000 feared dead after Iran protests, as video shows bodies lined up at morgue
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CBS News: At least 12,000 protestors killed in Iran Protests crackdown
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The scariest thing about Iran's crackdown
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@wrodgers2
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“In a sense Iran's firewall is the inverse of China's great firewall...In Iran, the government has essentially blacklisted the entire internet and is experimenting with “white listing” some essential services to keep its sputtering economy functional.” https://www.ft.com/...
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Fascinating FT report about the Iranian government's efforts to limit or block internet access - and how activists try to circumvent restrictions. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
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Pejoratively nicknamed the “halal internet” by some Iranians, it was a cruder version of China's “great firewall”. Its goal was simple: at times of upheaval, it would allow the government to cut off ordinary Iranians from the world, and potentially from each other, while allowin…