[lupire]

It is illegal in USA for Meta to pay fines to Iran government.

The government is blocking at network level anyway.

The app provider should detect the network outage and provide a good UI, not proactively block users who aren't using the affected network at all.

[wyldfire]

> The app provider should detect the network outage and provide a good UI,

Can the blocking be adequately distinguished from packet loss? If not it seems like it would be embarrassing for the app to declare Government blockage when it's not really the case.

[ffk]

It’s probably validated by a human before the message is deployed.