Iran limits internet to favored groups as shutdown hits 52nd day, NetBlocks says

freedom of speech What never... heard of it

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I don't think people in the west genuinely realize what this means. They think this is like a digital detox or whatever. No. This is nothing working. No Instagram. No WhatsApp. No Google maps. No outlook. No teams. No Google drive. No chatgpt. No duckduckgo. No video games that need internet. No streaming. No YouTube. No TikTok. No X. No telegram. No Elsevier. No Google scholar. No archive. No arxive. No IEEE. No economist. No BBC. No NYT. No NASA.  Nothing.  Absolutely nothing works. You are completely cut off from the rest of the world.  The only people who have internet are either paying 1/15 th of their salary per Gb of data (courtesy of those who have made VPNs and are selling configurations, mostly because they have Starlink which is illegal to have in Iran and have found an opening, which won't stay open for long), or they are connected to the regime (we call them white SIM card).  It's been 1,200 hours of this. Almost 50 days. I don't think you truly realize what this does not only to people's mental health but to their jobs and livelihoods.  Imagine shutting down the entire US economy for almost 50 days.