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by nindalf 1372 days ago
I doubt Iran needs to go to the extent of hacking Meta to block a few random users in Italy? They've achieved their main aim of quelling protests by simply blocking at the network level. I'm skeptical about the original bug report.
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There are tons of Iranians abroad, figuring out a way to cut them off from the local population is definitely a worthy goal for the regime.
> blocking at the network level

How could any network-level block by Iran prevent a user in the UK from calling a user in India?