[1] https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/conferences/RRB/Pages/Starlink....

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cre28d2j2zxo

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they can censor IPv4 when they want, but they don't know how to censor IPv6. So they block it entirely.

This is the reason why they aren't blacking out IPv4

From my own experience, my ex gf was iranian. She was using discord via some psiphon vpn or something iirc idk how she got access to it but she had it.

I didn't trust psiphon that much so I asked her to install proton vpn and it did work. I wanted to play minecraft with her so prismlauncher but resources couldn't be downloaded so I made her download protonvpn so that she can play minecraft with me/install it (piracy was forced and also at that point necessary)

She was using tlauncher which somehow worked but tlauncher was russian spyware and prism launcher was open source

I talked to her about how she could use stablecoins crypto but crypto was illegal so ended up not suggesting it in the end to prevent inflation or talked to her about gold which is wild considering its like 3-4 months after we broke up but inflation is at 50% now.

Anyways the point being that protonvpn worked and other vpn worked too.

My question is, would things like protonvpn work after this blackout? I mean marco's and other comments in a thread explain to me that ipv4 can be blocked by them so I presume vpn's for ipv4 would shut down. And so vpns would most likely be using ipv6 which got blocked down

So does that mean that now Iranian people can't access vpns?

I also saw the other day some video about how when people called Iranian numbers from outside countries some random AI robot ass voice called and asked who are you and who are you talking to? And gave pause, and the most logical explaination to it was that the govt was recording these things so dont say anything to them. It was a creepypasta video.

Briar might help but Briar still leaks some metadata when I talked to their authors or heard about it online.

Instagram isn't blocked in Iran so are these social media apps still there after the blackout?

This raises so many questions and wtf is happening in the world

https://pouyaii.github.io/Iran/

The discussion here assumes that the Iranian government is responsible for this blackout. I actually don't understand enough about network routing to undestand the OP dashboard linked to or be able to answer this question, but could it instead be the work of an opponent preparing to attack Iran?

Does everything stop or it's mostly business as usual minus some things?

I would imagine hospitals, tax offices etc need the internet to work?

Is this the first country which genuinely effectively is able to ban tor?

Because even in China, tor can work through bridges or some other methods and even Chinese firewalls aren't so extreme as iran right now.

Edit: forgot that north korea exists so I guess the second country but even in north korea there was this chinese interviewer or japanese interviewer who contacted people in north korea ig and those north koreans then interviewed for the first time completely uncensored north korea and it was brutal (a girl saying both her parents died and she was so so skinny i think) , they then went and smuggled the tapes from north korea to china and then to japan and then the company/production company or something blurred the peoples faces involved for anonymity.

There's also this 1 steam connection in north korea so its just gonna be a mystery if we ever see a north korean person using a tor but I am 99% sure that it wont but north korea also got 1 steam connection so you never know.

Ah, well...

IPv6 is still blacked out

Looking at IPv6 its not 0 exactly, looks like probably censorship, only some devices allowed online? Some other comment mentioned there's calls to protest again today.