"For most of Iran, the internet was shut off on Thursday afternoon the most severe blackout the country has seen in years of internet shutdowns, coming after days of escalating anti-government protests. For a very small sliver of the country, it is still possible to get photos and videos to the outside world, and even to make calls. The Telegram channel Vahid Online on Monday posted photos of dead bodies lying next to a street in Kahrizak,"
"Some of these videos and messages are transmitted through an ecosystem of online tools designed to bypass censorship among them Telegram proxies, a decentralised messaging service called Delta Chat, and a browser called Ceno, said Amir Rashidi, an Iranian digital rights expert. By far the most significant part of this system are Starlink terminals, which connect to the internet via thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit, and have been smuggled into Iran en masse over the past two years."
An internet blackout across most of Iran followed days of escalating anti-government protests, severing electronic information flow for the majority of the population. A small fraction of users continue to transmit photos, videos and calls abroad using Telegram channels and an ecosystem of circumvention tools such as Telegram proxies, Delta Chat and the Ceno browser. Starlink terminals smuggled into Iran over the past two years form the most significant remaining connection, with estimates between about 50,000 and up to 100,000 units. Each terminal can serve multiple people, but total users remain at most in the hundreds of thousands. Authorities are hunting for and jamming terminals, and nearly all other electronic traffic appears to be regime-whitelisted.
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