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> Had authorities withdrawn IPv4 routes, as they did with IPv6, Iran would have become completely unreachable, as Egypt was in January 2011. By keeping IPv4 rou
by baxtr 9mo ago
> Had authorities withdrawn IPv4 routes, as they did with IPv6, Iran would have become completely unreachable, as Egypt was in January 2011. By keeping IPv4 routes in circulation, Iranian authorities can selectively grant full internet access to specific users while denying it to the broader population.
As of late, we’ve seen a few measures like the restoration of transit from Rostelecom and the return of routes originated by IPM, as the country appears to be moving towards a partial restoration. At the time of this writing, the plan appears to be to operate the Iranian internet as a whitelisted network indefinitely.
I’d call that digital apartheid.
- alephnerd 9mo agoThat's pretty much their plan - to create an Internet-e-Paak or "Pure" Internet. This all started back during the Green Revolution.
- gsf_emergency_6 9mo agoVery tangentially (For those prone to normie-sniping :) Picture of Tehran (hybrid warfare) https://archive.ph/2026.01.21-041206/https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/19/in-iran-the-us-israeli-addiction-to-hybrid-warfare-is-on-full-display#:~:text=strike%20on%20a-,building%20in%20Tehran,-is%20seen%20on https://archive.ph/2026.01.21-041206/https://www.aljazeera.c...
- trhway 9mo agoThe Rostelecom mentioning isn't just an accident - in Russia they have been practicing whitelisting more and more by turning the Internet off, except for whitelisted sites, under the guise of safety measures during drone attacks (which is like almost every day/night), various high level visits, mass public events, etc.
- gsf_emergency_6 9mo agoRIC exchange tech amongst themselves https://eh4s.eu/publication/sino-russo-iranian-tech-cooperation-as-threat-for-the-eu-systemic-approach https://eh4s.eu/publication/sino-russo-iranian-tech-cooperat...
- lucasRW 9mo ago"under the guise of safety measures " >> Like in Europe then. :o) "It's to protect the children"
- breppp 9mo agoNot going to defend the islamic republic with its massacres, but if there is no racial element there is no apartheid, no need to overload a precise term. This is simply turning down methods of communications to reduce protestors ability to coordinate and enable mass killings
- Braxton1980 9mo agoCouldn't they just not kill people in mass?
- direwolf20 9mo agoFor some reason this is never seen as a viable solution
- adzm 9mo agoHopefully this is something we can agree upon
- baxtr 9mo agoI understand what you are saying and I was thinking about it when I wrote my comment. I still stand by the term. Apartheid literally means "apartness". Even though the segregation in this case is not on a racial basis they still classify their population into two major blocks. Some have full rights, others have none.
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- dominicrose 9mo agoApartheid isn't only about race. It can be about genre. It obviously exists in Iran. There's also a long history of Persians vs Arabs, an weaponised islam.