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Comment by immibis

3 days ago

Most likely they just go to the head of the ISP (I bet there's only one) and say turn the internet off or else.

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thesdev  3 days ago

Yep, everything connecting to the Internet goes through the TIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication_Infrastructu...

  • breppp  3 days ago

    Ministry of Information is a name with a certain feel

    • zamadatix  3 days ago

      I probably spent far too much time looking into why they'd set themselves up with that kind of name... but it just nerd sniped me too hard to pass up.

      Translation tools claim (I don't know enough to verify) a literal translation is "Ministry of Communications and Information Technology". I.e. they handle telecoms & IT, or "communications technology and information technology" if fully expanded.

      But why bother switching it around to "Ministry of Information and Communications Technology" then? Apparently because that's what the order we call it in English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications... which surprised me because I didn't even know that was a term and I've only ever worked in the IT and telecoms jobs - WHTMA (We Have Too Many Acronyms).

mywittyname  3 days ago

You assume threats need to be made.

One doesn't get to be the head of a business in a country like Iran without being a True Believer.

  • ReptileMan  3 days ago

    I doubt there are many true believers. Most of the top brass are probably driven from sf interest. But loyalty is beyond doubt. At least until the regime is winning

    • helloaltalt  3 days ago

      Iran is kind of like russia thinking about it.

      Russia's trying to censor some shit too by having outside ipv4 or something (dont know what its called) blocked and basically made a large intranet

      But people could still buy vps and make it work somehow

      So iran and russia are similar in that sense and this kinda puts things more into balance but I am sure that % of true believers/doing for self interest might vary or something