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I'm wondering for what purpose one would be interested in finding out if a site is hosted in Iran or not.
by Yokolos 11mo ago
I'm wondering for what purpose one would be interested in finding out if a site is hosted in Iran or not.
- asdefghyk 11mo agoIm guessing - its for some protest action? ... but really I have NO IDEA.
- nostrademons 11mo agoWould assume it's to check if a site is foreign propaganda. A lot of the lesser-known news sites that you see linked on social media are actually psy-ops pushing an agenda, many of them foreign-based. Follow the technique in the article and you can easily blacklist Iranian ones.
- mdni007 11mo ago[flagged]
- testdelacc1 11mo agoDozens of Scottish independence X accounts ‘went dark’ after Iranian internet blackout (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/06/25/scottish-independence-went-dark-iran-internet-blackout-snp/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/06/25/scottish-ind...) Iran is actively working hard to make us hate our fellow citizens. That matters.
- rozab 11mo agoMore concretely, a bunch of Scottish nationalist accounts were unearthed as Iranian by the recent X location switch-on
- FilosofumRex 11mo ago[flagged]
- ifidishshbsba 11mo agoSo true, can this be adapted to detect Hasbara?
- greenavocado 11mo agoAsk the person you are arguing with to denounce certain things and the response is often informative
- kortilla 11mo agoIf you’re in any western democracy you should worry about propaganda bots from Iran, DPRK, Russia, and China. They have well known active operations of helping fuel the flames of political division by amplifying both sides of extremely divisive topics. If you’ve ever engaged in flame wars about abortion, brexit, Scottish independence, the Ukraine war, the Gaza war, etc, there is a really good chance there were many participants from one of those parties.
- greenavocado 11mo agoJIDF never disappeared, it merely got a fresh coat of paint and disappeared from the public eye
- BergAndCo 11mo agoJIDF was a geocities website by a random rabbi in his basement
- greenavocado 11mo agoThe website is irrelevant
- AngryData 11mo agoI worry even more about native propaganda bots honestly. Just because they are native it doesn't mean they aren't pushing a massive agenda, and they have even more motivation to do so.
- austin-cheney 11mo agoEverybody spies and attempts psyops campaigns. I am much more concerned about nations that actively and massively attempt to exploit US election interference: Russia and Israel.
- Waterluvian 11mo agoThose all did concern me. These days they concern me far less than the U.S. I’ve got to prioritize my foes.
- elemdos 11mo agoI don’t buy psy-ops unless it’s American-made
- keybored 11mo agoWhy are people in the (presumed) West particularly afraid of the propaganda of a Middle Eastern country? Is the intelligence/propaganda unit there so good that they can program minds from a different continent better than Western oligarchs? This has got “Russia stole American democracy with millions worth of FB ads” vibes to it. But if there is an easy technical implement to avoid some propaganda then good on them I guess. Why not. One less thing to worry about.
- delichon 11mo agoI'd rather not do business there.
- cj 11mo agoIt’s illegal for US companies to do business with anyone in Iran.