After 88 days of blackout, the internet is finally beginning to return. According to NetBlocks, around 86% of people now have access again - something that felt almost impossible not long ago.
But this is still far from normal life. Heavy restrictions and filtering remain, and no one knows how long this fragile access will continue or when it could disappear again.
What these months have done to people is difficult to fully describe. Businesses built over years have collapsed, many workers have lost their jobs, and the emotional and psychological weight forced onto people during this silence has been immense. The scale of the damage caused by this shutdown is truly hard to comprehend.
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Any advice for people in countries who have yet to experience internet partitioning?
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Well not here to defend the state of Iran, but cutting the access to the internet for 3 months and bankrupting some businesses as an unintended consequence of the shutdown, probably pales in comparison to losing your home and/or family to a foreign bomb dropped them just for existing in a certain territory. You can restore communications and probably rebuild your customer base eventually, but other things may remain destroyed forever. Let’s be honest about who’s to be blamed here. This was a war by choice and Iranians didn’t make that choice.
You just have to remember there was once a life without internet and it wasn’t a bad life.
It sounds like you're blaming the Iranian government? Has the internet shutdown done more damage than the bombs and missiles?
Can confirm, I'm seeing traffic flowing "the right way"
USA and Israel bombing your neighbours house but you're complaining about having a domestic internet..
As if Israel and USA bombing civilians is good, but Iranians having the privilege of a domestic internet is somehow bad?
Are you even a real person? In the past 6 weeks everything you share suggests that you're not even real and whoever is running the account is getting lazy
The internet in Iran works much like China.
They have their own domestic internet.
To access he global international internet requires a VPN.
It's really not that compl
I heard VPN traffic was blocked too. You had to get creative in piggybacking the protocols that were still more or less intact, like tunnel traffic in DNS.
This has consequences for how many people can do it and for bitcoiners:
- onchain sync
- domestic LN nodes > channels with foreign nodes
- local ecash
People with starlink doing low-key "internet parties"
Hence the question on practical lessons learned in this episode.
