screenshot shows rightwing outlet with headline "Iran issues chilling threat to cut 'all the world's internet"  iran tweets "time to go outside everyone"   context dependant on knowledge that this is originally a tweet from discord.

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[–] 69 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If Iran destroys the internet completely, I will convert to Islam.

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  • [–] 66 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    jellyfin self hosters stay winning

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    omg that would kinda be awesome except for the 'i can't pay any of my bills' shit that would ensue and then electricity and water getting cut off and all that probably

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  • [–] 64 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    The US would descend into a mad max-esque pure chaos overnight if the entire country lost internet at once.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    If they do this, it would be the only reason i'd log off

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  • [–] 55 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    We need a Xi please emote but for Iran

    timmy-pray

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  • [–] 39 points 3 days ago*

    this would be unironically great. interrupting the nonstop propaganda will sure make people use their own brains more the longer it's disrupted.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 days ago*

    Iran, please, for the love of everything good, release me from this prison and set me free from misery.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 days ago

    please iran, put us out of our misery

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  • this is CTH not news so maybe i'm just being dour, but this seems aimed the oil monarchies, not directly at the west. meaning, the gulf states might have issues with international web traffic, but the western countries mostly won't.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 days ago

    Is this the daddy republicans have been searching for?

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    You know what, yeah. It’s time.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 days ago

    they be chillin'

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  • [–] 21 points 3 days ago

    I got my offline games ready 2 go

    Jk if the power dies it’s all cooked, I never bothered with handhelds

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    [–] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Real question: wouldn’t this just cut us off from part of the globe, but the internet within America would continue to work? Seems like it would just make a national net instead of a global internet.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 days ago

    That's fucking funny

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