Comment by littlecranky67
12 days ago
There must be so much video footage from smartphones during the demonstations that show gruesome killings and masacres, the iranian elites have to make sure this footage never sees the rest of the world. They have to ban the internet forever.
I don't want to believe that a government so incompetent, corrupt and cruel can continue to function. I don't trust that the rest of the world will help militarily although it's a strong possibility, but I do trust that they will continue to isolate the country. It's possible that the regime will implode simply because there is no honor among thieves.
Unfortunately, they are extremely competent at holding on to power. Inflation has been oscillating between 20% and 50% since 2019 yet here we are. It is hard to over throw the people who have all the guns.
I am usually pretty isolationist in my thinking but I really wish the US would have already invaded.
Millions of young Persians who are absolutely no different than you or I. It is now or never. If the regime can put down this uprising it is going to be hard to form another uprising for a long long time.
Nah, just for a year or so, after they will say all the footage is "AI generated".
Sadly, this already happens in China.
After many years of heavy censorship on 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, there are a lot of accounts on Chinese BBS who say all the footage "AI generated".
They likely try to find and remove a lot of these videos (and their owners) before turning on the internet.
They don't have to. In two weeks nobody will (pretend to) care anymore.
From the phones, computers, usb sticks and SD cards of millions of people?
They certainly wouldn't be the first regime to violently suppress millions of its own people.