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Article claims this primarily affects US tech companies. Then refuses to elaborate on who and how.
by tcdent 5mo ago
Article claims this primarily affects US tech companies. Then refuses to elaborate on who and how.
- bilekas 5mo agoThe bits that are flying the US flag are not allowed through. There are some blackbit transfers happening though with ACK's turned off.
- halJordan 5mo agoWoah. This is ars. The pinnacle of tech reporting. Not some washed up rag being squeezed of value by its corporate overlords at Conde Nast. How dare you bring up this stuff
- bilekas 5mo agoTo play devil's advocate, the majority of the internet traffic in general is US company based. So it stands to reason any disruption would impact them the most. EDit : https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic I know cloudflare is not everything, but it's a good bellwether.
- pseudalopex 5mo agoThey changed the article" Or you missed the 3rd paragraph? But Tasnim and Fars, both Iranian state-linked media channels, laid out more detailed proposals on how Iran could charge license fees to US tech giants for the use and maintenance of undersea cables carrying regional Internet traffic, according to The Guardian. For example, the Tasnim plan described charging tech companies—specifically naming Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft—license fees for cable usage while also claiming that Iran alone has the right to repair and maintain the subsea cables.