As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by stickfigure on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:11AM (#32938998)

There is zero chance that FB/Meta is complicit in this. The occam's razor answer is that the Iranian government has figured out an attack, and a bunch of FB employees are frantically trying to mitigate it instead of reading HN.

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Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by nindalf on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:25AM (#32939201)

I doubt Iran needs to go to the extent of hacking Meta to block a few random users in Italy? They've achieved their main aim of quelling protests by simply blocking at the network level. I'm skeptical about the original bug report.

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Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by toyg on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:08AM (#32939921)

There are tons of Iranians abroad, figuring out a way to cut them off from the local population is definitely a worthy goal for the regime.

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Re:As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, What... by panarky on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:45PM (#32941421)

> blocking at the network level

How could any network-level block by Iran prevent a user in the UK from calling a user in India?

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