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Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by aasasd on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:00AM (#32938838)
To my knowledge, Iranian government doesn't have power to dictate FB's actions outside Iran. So FB could block by the IPs, but blocking everywhere by the nationality makes no sense (at least by the standards of a normal person).
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Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by weard_beard on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:29PM (#32942786)
I can only send email 500 miles and my nationality seems to impact my cell service
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Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by aasasd on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:58PM (#32945712)
Github once managed to ban accounts of Iranians, even students in the US. Afaik shortly after that GH went to the US government and convinced them that sanctioning every Iranian even outside Iran was technically and politically dubious, which resulted in the sanctions being relaxed in some way.
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