I really hope pooya87 is safe! He should find his way out of the country ASAP.
This came to my mind immediately I saw the thread. The Iranian government is notorious for such an act. But this time, the US and Israeli governments contributed in the major blow to the internet through cyberattacks and direct/indirect bombing of Internet infrastructures. I guess the US-Israel purpose is to weaken their communications to allies.
It's scary to see $50M+ become around $36K+, I can't imagine what it would be like if I were that user. Sometimes our enemy isn't external parties like hacker or something like that, but ourselves, something like this doesn't happen just once, it happens repeatedly with different cases with the same source of the problem, human error.
Does this mean someone else, or a few people, profited $50m?
Yes & one of them is those who are liquidity providers.
I thought it was the US that managed to shutdown their internet because of what I recently watched where President Trump said something about it. I really feel sorry for people in Iran. From what I see in the news, what’s happening to them right now is terrible. It seems like what Trump said he would do is actually happening.
I’m hoping that the internet shutdown is the only thing affecting pooya87 and that nothing bad has happened to him. The same goes for other Bitcointalk members here who are in Iran.
Keep safe, everyone.
Its probably just the lack of internet I'm guessing. Whats kind of interesting is Iranians can still access Telegram b/c it uses different network ports (or something, I'm not entirely sure). There was some Iranian dudes in a TG chat I'm in asking around for a free VPN, as supposedly the internet can still be accessed via VPN there.
Hm, I am not so sure that all they need is a VPN for Internet access because I have IRL friend from Iran (lives here in EU) who went back to Tehran to visit his family, and I also didn't hear from hime since February 27th, despite him always using VPN.
Afaik, only those with Starlink (which is illegal in Iran) or with special government issued sim cards have access to Internet during times like hese.
In the past, when the internet was accessible, people inside Iran could use a VPN to connect to the outside world. The regime inside Iran has restricted which sites people inside Iran can access, likely including the forum, so it is likely he had to use a VPN to access the internet.
I used to have a positive opinion of him because he always contributed to the forum with his knowledge, but recently, given the situation in his country, he has become very harsh in his comments and avoided answering some of my specific questions about what he was doing while his regime was killing thousands in the streets and arresting them.
The regime inside Iran killed people in their hospital beds if they were believed to have participated in the protests against the government. Thousands of people were killed this way, in addition to people being killed in the streets. So I don't think much can be read into his reluctance to criticize his government.
Furthermore, his generalization of the Western world as a satanic world that will soon be destroyed is completely unacceptable to me and can be perceived as a direct threat to everyone who doesn't share the same political views as him.
Fair point.
The Iranian government shutdown the internet.
Why would they do that? Who benefits from preventing pooya87 from accessing the internet?
The regime inside Iran benefits when the people inside Iran are unable to have access to the free flow of information. They have a long history of trying to limit the amount of information available to the people inside Iran, although many were able to circumvent these restrictions via VPNs. They did the same thing during the protests against the regime in January. North Korea does the same thing to the people in North Korea for similar reasons -- neither regime wants people inside those countries being able to learn about the freedoms available in the West, and to be able to communicate with eachother about getting those freedoms.
Furthermore, Trump has warned that anyone in the Iranian security forces who does not surrender will face certain death, has asked the people inside Iran to rise up and overthrow their government. The regime inside Iran most certainly does not want the people inside Iran to hear those types of messages.
The Iranian government shutdown the internet.
Why would they do that? Who benefits from preventing pooya87 from accessing the internet?
The same people who've been trying to hide the fact that for the last 2.5 years they've been deliberately targeting schools, hospitals, refuge camps, and food distribution gatherings in Gaza, perhaps? The same people who've refused to allow inspection of their own nuclear program, while Iran's nuclear program has had more international inspections than any other country in history, perhaps?
Western media lies. Anything reported by western media is almost certainly the opposite of the truth.
I too wish pooya87 the best. I hope to see him here telling what he's witnessed soon. But if it's one thing I've learned, many here will refute his own experience and argue with links to western propaganda as if it's their own truth.
That sucks. I remember the last time I went through a complete internet shutdown - totally awful experience and I advise getting out of such a place where possible.
One annoyance is subscriptions and stuff. Countries that shut down the internet for months can make user infrastructure like servers etc expire, if they can't be renewed.
The VPN situation in Iran is also unclear. There are news reports warning Iranian users that citizens using VPNs can be blocked by phone number and even face legal action.
If the shutdown was made by completely blocking traffic to the internet, then I don't see how VPNs would help here.