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IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps)-linked media outlines plan to tax and control undersea internet cables in the Hormuz Strait — Iran's mouthpiece calls for a cut of $10 trillion of transaction… (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Surely the Internet can route the bits some other place

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 3 days ago

Sure it can (most of the bits, anyway). You can go the opposite way around the world or around the edge of Africa, for instance. Latency will go up, and it'll add to the congestion of other trunk cables, but rerouting is certainly possible for any location where the cables in the strait aren't your only route out. The real damage will be to the middle-eastern countries served directly by these cables, and it may be a bit of a headache for people who maintain Internet infrastructure.

Although Iran might cut the cables regardless, since one of the countries they appear to serve is Iran itself. Easiest way to control the news is to limit the flow of information across the border.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

All this and more brought to you by Donny the Demented just to deflect from the Epstein Files. What a psychopath.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Quagmire. We had it good, Trump fucked us, and now if we back down and let Iran get their way, they'll be vastly more powerful and more evil than ever.

[–] s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I agree with your statement, except for the evil part. They will definitely continue to be an adversary. But the US and UK have been messing around in this region for over 100 years. Who knows what kind of government the Persians would have if it hadn't been for western backed coups.

[+] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world -12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Iran is the lesser evil in this war. They’re a democratic society that refuses to engage in genocide. By comparison the US is a democracy currently aiding Israel in genocide.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Just because there's a war doesn't mean you have to say one side is the good guys. What are you, eight?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

There is inly one bad side in a war of aggression, the agressor. The regime oppressiveness is irelevsnt in this context.

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago

The Ayatollah was Iran’s Chief Islamic Judge. The US also gives judges at the highest levels lifetime appointments. This is basic stuff . How ignorant are you to not know any of this?

Plus I noticed you completely sidestepped the issue of Israel’s genocide, even though they’re the country that pulled us into this mess of a war.

[–] DamnianWayne@lemmy.world -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean your lamenting the loss of your evil empire benefits. Sounds like you already took a lifelong side in this.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The collective "we" had it good. As in, the world generally including you unless you're posting from inside Iran. The strait is rightfully international waters and have been for ages. Anything less is a return to mercantilism.

How crazy do you have to be to look at the vicious crackdown last year and call Iran democratic? Just because I hate America doesn't mean I'm on the side of a bloody-handed authoritarian theocratic state. What is with you?

[–] LLMhater1312@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that authoritarian theocratic state and its people (many of whom dont support their own government) are the only thing standing up to the heinous evil of the US Israeli imperial monstrosity and dying for it, which is a lot more than anyone from the west is doing

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Oh, I thought I'd forgotten something. I forgot to die! It's hardly as if Americans or Brits have been protesting and getting served draconian punishments by their twisted Zionistic governments, right? We can't complain unless we're also dead. Great point.

Setting aside the sarcasm, I've repeatedly pointed out the plight of the heroic Iranian protestors who died, to the markedly deaf ears of people in this very post who are asserting Iran is somehow "the good guy" in their black and white moral tapestry.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There are a lot of those types here, frustratingly. It’s doubly amusing and wild when you come across the ones who are really down bad for North Korea.

[–] alakey@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wish there was a program where we could fully sponsor their resettlement to nk/iran/whatever is their favourite flavour of authoritarianism.

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Should a program like that be initiated, they will admit that they are edgelords / demagogues and they don't actually believe in any of this (the NK stuff in particular is strong evidence that this is all online roleplay).

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 0 points 3 days ago

Apparently. I would hope at least they're getting paid to talk that shit, but I'm not even seeing that level of cunning on display.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Whatever you think the straight is international water or not, iran as the aggressed has the right to defend itself and impose blockades to do it. That's why ukaine can legally attack russian linked oil ships. Without the straight, and the drones and missiles that the west always tried to limit, iran wouldf have been already a failed stste like Lybia

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

A democratic society? Since when does a democratic society have a leader for life and organises mass killings and torture of citizens?

Iran is aiding russia in its genocidal imperialist invasion of Ukraine, or does that not count?

Is this a satirical comedy account? A parody of "Lemmy leftists"?

[–] sanitation@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 days ago

I mean he had semi ok plan - take over Venezuela and Iran oil and then do a trade deal. Didnt work.