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General advice: + As a guest it is rude to behave in ways you know your hosts consider impolite. + As a matter of personal safety, unwarranted risks are unwar
by brudgers 1y ago
General advice:
+ As a guest it is rude to behave in ways you know your hosts consider impolite.
+ As a matter of personal safety, unwarranted risks are unwarranted.
Buying a cheap phone in Iran and enjoying your bucket list trip is the simplest thing that might work. Why try to fuck with a nation-state. Good luck.
- firefax 1y ago>Why try to fuck with a nation-state. Because they shoot protesters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan Cross that line, the gloves come off.
- brudgers 1y agoI guess that could be the basis for a vacation, but I doubt the OP is going to move that needle with a burner phone and a VPN.
- firefax 1y agoIt speaks volumes that simply circumventing a firewall is "fucking with" a regime. I'm guessing Iran is similar to China (restrictions on GPS software etc). They may be simply trying to efficiently vacation. Having a way to get information out if mistreated can make mistreatment simply not happen. The Persian people are very friendly, but they're held hostage by a lunatic fringe. When you blame the user for circumventing as firewall, it's akin to blaming a battered woman for "instigating" her man. Mature authoritarian regimes do things old fashioned -- they put a minder on you, and keep an eye out. If Iran is too poor or stupid to take that approach, then maybe it's a good thing if a single crack in their firewall brings humpty dumpty tumbling down.