Posted on 01/17/2026 1:31:24 PM PST by Libloather
The Iranian government is reportedly planning to permanently sever its citizens from the global internet — confining them instead to a state-run system as part of a continued crackdown on dissent following the Islamic regime’s slaughtering of thousands of protesters.
Filterwatch, a digital rights monitoring project which has tracked Iranian internet censorship since 2012, says info it obtained indicates Tehran is moving toward “absolute digital isolation.”
The Islamic Republic is abandoning its old model of “mass internet censorship” in favor of a “permanent shift” toward a “sealed intranet” while “access to the outside world is granted only to those with security clearance,” Filterwatch said.
“This information blockade reflects the extreme securitization of the ‘Communication Blackhole’ project, making access to real news harder for domestic users than for external observers,” according to the censorship watchdog.
The move to crack down on internet access follows nationwide protests that erupted late last month as Iranians took to the streets over a spiraling economic crisis and soon began calling for regime change.
Demonstrations spread across all 31 provinces as security forces moved in with force to brutally crush the unrest.
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Former Iranian prisoners reveal torture horrors as regime kills protesters on sight during crackdown
Yellow legal pads and Ticonderoga #2 pencils will be issued.
Plus postage stamps and envelopes.
Hate to say it but I would finally fit in with something in Iran.
The Iranian regime is demonstrating what maximum ruthlessness can achieve, on the models of High Stalinism and the CCP’s Tienanmen crackdown. A disarmed, isolated and atomized population can be terrorized into submission indefinitely so long as the bad guys at the top never moderate or weaken their control.
Frankly, the Internet needs a competitor to keep our own governments from turning it into a digital gulag.
Sometimes Ham operators can send and recieve.
Interesting. I knew one man in his 70s who was ham radio guy. Modern ones are all with arrayed computer monitors and digital devices from what I hear.
So they aspire to be North Korea.
This isn’t going to work out for the Islamic Regime. If the public remains in their homes under pain of death no one is left to operate commerce, utilities and bottom-level administration necessary for all societies to function.
It’s like “My foot tripped me up. I’ll show it who’s boss by breaking the whole leg.”
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