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Re:Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink by dzhiurgis on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:25PM (#46582621)
Imagine if Starlink came with special channel to X.com. UK would loose their minds.
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Re:Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink by immibis on Sunday January 11, 2026 @11:22PM (#46584081)
Is x.com blocked in the UK?
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Re:Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink by smsm42 on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:30PM (#46595132)
Not yet, but soon. Possibly even this year.
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Re:Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink by KellyCriterion on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:28AM (#46599652)
Curious: Will this be implemented on DNS level?
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Re:Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink by smsm42 on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @04:26PM (#46697957)
DNS level is too easy to circumvent - you just set your server to 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, and it's enough just one of them refuses to kowtow to Ofcom. More likely it'd de on routing level. Which has obvious problems unless they build full-blown DPI firewall and implement VPN blocking (they may consult China for that) but to cut off the most lazy users it'd be effective.
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Re:Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink by ece on Thursday January 22, 2026 @11:22AM (#46721358)
X will be in the same category as rt.
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Re:Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink by GJim on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:59AM (#46586780)
You may wish to look what is happening closer to home before engaging in such low level trolling.
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