Comment by hkalbasi
17 days ago
As an Iranian in Iran who is now connected, I have a request: Please tell google make colab available behind the safe browsing IP. Google's safe browsing IP is usually the #1 whitelisted IP in internet blackouts. Having colab on this IP allows tech people to ssh into their servers, and bootstrap connections based on the available protocols at the time.
There is a dedicated thread of record and anti-censorship resources of the Iran Network Shutdown [1]. Hope it helps.
[1] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/561
If this happened, they would blacklist it.
In the absence of a perfect solution, we should do nothing? The entire scenario is a cat and mouse whack-a-mole arms race. I'd support doing something to give the citizens a leg up.
You can run a Google Colab proxy on your website. Predictably, they will block your website because preventing access to wrongthink is more important than ensuring access to rightthink.
Doesn't using ssh from colab violate their ToS?
On the small chance that cloudflare is also whitelisted.., you might want to try a cloudflared tunnel..
Good luck! i hope you will soon be able to call your congressman
https://archive.ph/2026.01.22-082913/https://www.aljazeera.c...