31 minutes agoIranians Face Longest National Internet Breakup, Ever Recorded
Periskopi(3 months ago)
(3 months ago)Internet outage in Iran, which was introduced shortly after the US and Israel attacked the country on February 28th, is now the longest ever registered national closure, according to NetBlocks monitors. “Internet outage in Iran is now the longest internet closure ever recorded in any country, [...]
“The destruction of the internet in Iran is now the longest internet closure ever recorded in any country, exceeding all other incidents comparable to severity, after entering the 37th day in a row after 864 hours”, NetBlocks said in a post on social networks.
In another post, the monitor noted that some countries had experienced interrupted or at a regional level for longer periods, while North Korea had never been linked to global internet.
“We constantly find ourselves looking for ways to reconnect, only to be able to hear reliable news”, a 47-year-old woman in the central city of Isfahan told AFP on Saturday.
Being online feels like being without oxygen. I feel trapped and drowned”, a 53-year-old man in Tehran said.
Iran's extremely limited local internet has worked throughout the war, enabling people to connect to domestic web sites.
To connect to the international internet for news or banned social media networks like Instagram, some are able to use private virtual networks (VPN) to hide their origin in rare moments when the network is available, Telegrafi reports, broadcast Periscope.
Iranians suspected of using the VPN since the beginning of the war have received text messages warning them of arrest or imprisonment.
Much more limited numbers of people have access to Starlink or other satellite-based internet providers, which are also banned. Iranians were previously placed under an 18-day internet blackout in January due to antigovernmental protests during which thousands of people were killed. /Periscope
