[mehrdada]

This.

Similarly, Google Cloud Platform blocks IPs from Iran, because I suspect they don't have a big-enough customer that pushes them to enable it. Some lazy-ass product counsel at Google does not have the balls to do the right thing and just decides to ban entire countries from accessing their customers' services because it's easier to be conservative.

Amazon, for example, operates in the same country and decides to interpret the law differently, despite being a bigger player. One more reason to not use Google Cloud.

(The irony is that the Iranian government is also fully aligned and likes to block things, so the poor people have to deal with the mess and circumvent blocking from both sides.)

[baroffoos]

I'd expect most of the population is using a VPN to access the internet now.

[mehrdada]

I haven't visited in about a decade so don't have a full picture. I'd say a lot of people have access to a VPN, but would not go as far as to say they are always connected to a VPN.