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Because sanctions (on the Internet) will radicalize younger people. Iran happens to have an abundance of them: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/th

by r3bl 7y ago

Because sanctions (on the Internet) will radicalize younger people. Iran happens to have an abundance of them: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Iran-age-pyramid.svg/2560px-Iran-age-pyramid.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Ir... If you want to help them, you don't do so by cutting them access to the information. Iran is not a dictatorship, it's a theocracy. Like literally everywhere else, the more people are educated, the less likely they are to let religion govern their lives. Young women are already protesting compulsory hijabs since December 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9319_Iranian_protests_against_compulsory_hjab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9319_Iranian_protes... Now I understand that you're from Israel which makes you too affected to look at the problem objectively, but the best way to help young people under an oppressive regime is to stay the fuck away and let them do what they must. The worst thing you could possibly do is to give them additional boundaries that they have to go through to access the information from the outside.

Muromec 7y ago
>If you want to help them, you don't do so by cutting them access to the information Worked wonders with Russia, right? At least those young people could use foss to better target artillery strikes in Eastern Ukraine to pay off their mortage.
- r3bl 7y ago
  Russian population changes in waves ever since that one generation got obliterated by WW2. It never had >50% of the population being <30 years old (as Iran did in the last census). Last time there was a surplus of young people within Russia, nobody had widespread Internet access, and certainly not people in Russia. Your analogy (and knowledge of history) is really, really terrible.
  - anon_shitposter 7y ago
    > "It didn't work with a small group, so we should try again with a large group! Also, here's a personal insult." Your brain on politics, folks.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  Criticizing soldiers for fighting effectively? Also, how much of that FOSS was written by Russians anyway? It's not a nation with a math or programming talent shortage.
  - anon_shitposter 7y ago
    Shifting the goalposts, strawmanning. Please at least make an effort.

by r3bl 7y ago

Muromec 7y ago

>If you want to help them, you don't do so by cutting them access to the information Worked wonders with Russia, right? At least those young people could use foss to better target artillery strikes in Eastern Ukraine to pay off their mortage.

r3bl 7y ago
Russian population changes in waves ever since that one generation got obliterated by WW2. It never had >50% of the population being <30 years old (as Iran did in the last census). Last time there was a surplus of young people within Russia, nobody had widespread Internet access, and certainly not people in Russia. Your analogy (and knowledge of history) is really, really terrible.
- anon_shitposter 7y ago
  > "It didn't work with a small group, so we should try again with a large group! Also, here's a personal insult." Your brain on politics, folks.
TeMPOraL 7y ago
Criticizing soldiers for fighting effectively? Also, how much of that FOSS was written by Russians anyway? It's not a nation with a math or programming talent shortage.
- anon_shitposter 7y ago
  Shifting the goalposts, strawmanning. Please at least make an effort.