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Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by lupire on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:59AM (#32938207)
It is illegal in USA for Meta to pay fines to Iran government.

The government is blocking at network level anyway.

The app provider should detect the network outage and provide a good UI, not proactively block users who aren't using the affected network at all.

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Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by wyldfire on Thursday September 22, 2022 @09:53AM (#32938764)
> The app provider should detect the network outage and provide a good UI,

Can the blocking be adequately distinguished from packet loss? If not it seems like it would be embarrassing for the app to declare Government blockage when it's not really the case.

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Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by ffk on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:53AM (#32939644)
It’s probably validated by a human before the message is deployed.
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