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News & Current Events Apr 6, 2026 at 12:09 AM

Satellite firm Planet Labs to indefinitely withhold Iran war images

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2HDFloppyDisk Apr 6, 2026 +1308
Withheld from the US public. Foreign adversaries have their own satellites.
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S1DC Apr 6, 2026 +413
We will still get to see everything. They can't stop other countries normal news from making it onto the internet.
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Miner_239 Apr 6, 2026 +161
Oh they'll censor it in the name of foreign misinformation propaganda, don't you worry
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coffee_addict_96 Apr 6, 2026 +52
VPN marketers eating good
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Interesting_Pen_167 Apr 6, 2026 +12
If I was a three letter agency I would have bought up all the VPN companies and pretended they were functioning private entities like 20 years ago.
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kaz_- Apr 7, 2026 +2
Does he know?
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fishyhaworthia1 Apr 6, 2026 +16
After it was found out the FBI starts tracking you the minute you sign up for a vpn ? Lmao
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ViolettaQueso Apr 6, 2026 +15
Exactly. Not an accident I saw the VPN use triggers CIA tracking of US citizens this morning on multiple sources.
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lonehorse1 Apr 6, 2026 +24
All they’re going to find is me watching Canadian and British public television.
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ViolettaQueso Apr 6, 2026 +21
Exactly. Just make sure you don’t accidentally watch Jimmy Kimmel on your vpn lol
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lonehorse1 Apr 6, 2026 +1
Oh I’ll turn off the VPN and blast it as loud as I can so they know full well where I’m located in those instances.
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captain_beefheart14 Apr 6, 2026 +3
What if i signed up for one like… 12 years ago?
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Western-Corner-431 Apr 7, 2026 +1
Good luck
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ArugulaAcrobatic4018 Apr 7, 2026 +1
Just run your own
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ArugulaAcrobatic4018 Apr 7, 2026 +1
Stop using commercial VPNs and run your own. There are prebuilt images with Wireguard
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KibblesNBitxhes Apr 6, 2026 +28
They could censor what americans see sure but not the rest of us.
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heeeeres_jonny Apr 6, 2026 +35
Are they really gonna Streisand effect themselves again? We all know how well it worked for them when they tried to censor Talarico when he went on Colbert's show. I had no interest in these satellite images before but now I kinda do...
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Find_another_whey Apr 6, 2026 +18
So long as there are other countries Media freedom in Australia doesn't let us see these images We get a prime minister repeating Israeli talking points though
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GermanPayroll Apr 6, 2026 +5
Presuming those nations choose to let their news do it
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PurpleMclaren Apr 6, 2026 +1
Cute you think they'll allow that, didnt Snowden confirm the government has a backdoor to all internet traffic
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Accujack Apr 6, 2026 +5
Or are getting intel from Russia, as in Iran's case.
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LetterNo7829 Apr 6, 2026 +645
US govt scared of the truth coming out?
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Luckydog12 Apr 6, 2026 +154
When is it not?
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TacticalDoge Apr 6, 2026 +80
*Gestures broadly to the Epstein files
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_IronClaw_ Apr 6, 2026 +12
Trump: I need a war to bury the Epstein truth! ... NOT LIKE THAT!!
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Marcysdad Apr 6, 2026 +427
They don't want to show all the winning going on on both sides /s
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Th1rte3n1334 Apr 6, 2026 +213
Lmao, remember when all the Republicans lost their shit over government overreach with regards to private companies? This certainly feels like the government trying to control what a private company does.
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jefbenet Apr 6, 2026 +49
Hey yall remember back to Inauguration Day when all the big tech bros were on hand to kiss the ring? Yeah…glad that’s never come back to bite us.
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Mr0neTwo34 Apr 6, 2026 +10
Feels like it cus it is... sick of this shit
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Avatara93 Apr 6, 2026 +5
Case in point.
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J-MRP Apr 6, 2026 +1
Capsaicin pint
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MaybeTheDoctor Apr 6, 2026 +42
Seems like these companies will have a lot more business tomorrow morning: - Airbus Defence and Space: France/Germany; at least daily revisit capacity globally. - ICEYE: Finland; sub-daily (multiple times per day) persistent monitoring. - Satellogic: Uruguay; up to 4 times a day for specific points of interest. - Axelspace: Japan; aiming for 1–3 day revisits with their growing constellation. - Synspective: Japan; daily monitoring capabilities using SAR (radar) technology. - e-GEOS: Italy; daily revisit capabilities through the COSMO-SkyMed
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grey_hat_uk Apr 6, 2026 +15
This feels really stupid move because now my mind is filling in the "winning" we aren't being shown. USAs accuracy below expectation, more holes where schools used to be? USA's damage to their bases and equipment worse than we know? Some sort of environmental catastrophy about to happen due to war crimes? Masses of refugees heading out to another country? (Remember the hordes heading from south America to the US?) Iran has now got well defended sites moving quickly toward nukes? How badly did you scew up mr president?
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FinancialSand3703 Apr 7, 2026 +2
Laundry fire in the Newest Carrier in the fleet. Multiple Reapers downed. Multiple F15s shot down. Munitions used more in a month of fighting than in decades of the War on Terror. Currently there are 3 f****** carrier strike Groups in the area.... These are levels of power projection that should bring a nation to its knees yet.... Going on 2 months. They fucked up massively. Legendary levels of bag fumbling
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blac_sheep90 Apr 6, 2026 +246
Oh so war crimes are being committed. Hegseth is doing a holy war because he is a religious nutjob.
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syynapt1k Apr 6, 2026 +47
100% this. The masks are coming off the Christian nationalists controlling this country.
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blac_sheep90 Apr 6, 2026 +29
Evangelicals are a threat to everyone's safety.
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techleopard Apr 6, 2026 +4
This needs to be underlined by news agencies. This is a holy war crusade. Start calling it that.
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Thunderclone_1 Apr 6, 2026 +1
No, don't the edgy crusade larpers will join up in droves for their opprotunity to kill muslims.
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techleopard Apr 6, 2026 +2
Good. Let them get a taste of what deployment actually is. An awful lot of millennial kids grew up during 9/11 talking about carpet bombing Afghanistan and then promptly discovered what war actually was when they turned 18-19 and signed up to serve.
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Persimmon-Mission Apr 6, 2026 +161
This does not seem like an overreaching government at all
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TheMightySet69 Apr 6, 2026 +65
But a government simple asking social media companies to moderate content that was believed to be misinformation or disinformation about a global pandemic was tyranny. 
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AsteroidMike Apr 6, 2026 +77
Whatsamatter, scared that the true and ugly depths of our actual terrorism would come out and turn public opinion?
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Impending_Dm Apr 6, 2026 +20
Nah, public opinion is already against them, and they are mentally incapable of ever acknowledging that the things they do could be immoral. What they're scared of is the public realizing they're losing and seeing them as weak.
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UnitSmall2200 Apr 6, 2026 +3
I'm afraid only about 57% are against them. About 40% still support them.
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HoosierRed Apr 6, 2026 +76
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Or as Brother Ali stated and taught us many years ago: Land of the Thief, Home of the Slave.
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padizzledonk Apr 6, 2026 +14
Where the dollar is sacred and power is God
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fakemessiah Apr 6, 2026 +2
Land of the free, united nations of hypocrisy, profit's our goal, we're incorporated, it's big business and oil companies controlling us all
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fishyhaworthia1 Apr 6, 2026 +1
His new album is a f****** banger "another country " is spring anthem 🤷
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Redordit Apr 6, 2026 +12
Same reason why journalists aren't allowed in Gaza
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BalanceOrganic7735 Apr 6, 2026 +35
Dictatorships prevent the People from knowing the truth in order to prevent the People from holding the regime accountable.
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Consistent-Leek4986 Apr 6, 2026 +6
caving to taco boy. pathetic
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d_smogh Apr 6, 2026 +6
Just like the Epstein files are indefinitely withheld.
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WeSoSmart Apr 6, 2026 +26
What’s the point?? There are Chinese companies selling these taken from Chinese satellites, is the us government gonna ban those too?
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Xefert Apr 6, 2026 -4
China did that by itself
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HatchingCougar Apr 6, 2026 -2
Both can be true
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syynapt1k Apr 6, 2026 +8
They absolutely are. What a ridiculous suggestion.
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fiendishrabbit Apr 6, 2026 +2
Shit happening in the South China Sea on a weekly basis?
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mainot Apr 6, 2026
You mean the muslims america murders on the daily? why do you care about the uyghurs? or is that selective critiscim , it is okay for america to murder muslims but no china?
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CheezTips Apr 6, 2026 +4
Too true
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ThePureAxiom Apr 6, 2026 +8
Just gonna sit there and be complicit in a coverup. Cool cool cool.
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cal405 Apr 6, 2026 +18
The US is about to unleash the most inhumane bombing of a civilian population since the fire bombing of Japan in March 1945. Can't have images of that circulating among the American populace.
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luthier_john Apr 6, 2026 +5
So they're gonna censor the war from us? So we won't ever know what's going on. They know the people are against it, they know it's pointless. They had no other choice. This country is in the shitter and the way to take it out is to mobilize the superior military to seize resources and conquer foreign land. They tried with Greenland, they tested it out in Venezuela, now we're balls deep in Iran. Where's the domestic US manufacturing? This is a great time for alternative power sources to take off, for research to usher in the next era of prosperity, etc. Instead, we're wasting resources fighting needlessly amongst ourselves. Bad monkeys
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TriXter69 Apr 6, 2026 +12
US censorship at Trumps request of course
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sf-keto Apr 6, 2026 +8
How many war crimes will they be hiding from us ? At Trump’s request?
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gkn_112 Apr 6, 2026 +15
imagine biden did this lol. Tucker carlson then: "This is not communism, we dont live in north korea!"
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BVB09_FL Apr 6, 2026 +1
To be fair, Tucker has been absolutely blasting Trump these days
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CosmicSeafarer Apr 6, 2026 +9
That’s not even fair. Tucker knew who he was and what he was about. And still does… it’s self serving.
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gkn_112 Apr 6, 2026 +1
Fair enough, I noticed as well. He is smelling the wind of change I guess. He'll just grift for the next sucker
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Bashed_to_a_pulp Apr 6, 2026 +3
Are they indirect combatants now?
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ddiggler2469 Apr 6, 2026 +3
what are they trying to hide
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Admiral_Tuvix Apr 6, 2026 +6
winners wouldn’t do this
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Knucks_408 Apr 6, 2026 +9
Our good ol tax payer dollars at work
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sovlex Apr 6, 2026 +1
Don't flatter yourself that you decide anything or someone owes something to you, those are fresh out of printer empty pieces of paper aimed to serve the interests of the people you'll never know or hear about.
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AmbushK Apr 6, 2026 +2
so we get a new #. #releasetheimages
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kagethemage Apr 6, 2026 +3
So boots on the ground Tuesday?
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Lumpymaximus Apr 6, 2026 +6
He does seem to make a final fakeout before big moves. Threats then a 1 day extension? Yeah.... id say its soon now. They got the generals out of the way.
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Adjective-Noun-nnnn Apr 6, 2026 +1
Maybe we should be happy the military will be preoccupied come November.
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SteveJobsBlakSweater Apr 6, 2026 +2
“War” images support the position that this is actually war, not a “military operation.” Can’t have that. Actual war requires proper oversight from elected officials.
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8ackwoods Apr 6, 2026 +2
Any free speachers want to chime in?
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Imbendo Apr 6, 2026 +5
Planet labs is only one of over 26 different companies that provide satellite data to the private sector. And seeing how the majority of war images we get are filmed with cell phones or released by militaries, their gesture is largely symbolic.
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CheezTips Apr 6, 2026 -1
> majority of war images we get are filmed with cell phones From space? Cool, cool
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Hvarfa-Bragi Apr 6, 2026 +4
> There are over 26... I feel like you willfully ignored the content of the comment.
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SleepingToDreaming Apr 6, 2026 +4
"Here is American Gladiators watch this SHUT UP!"
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NotPrepared2 Apr 6, 2026 +4
Trump wants exclusive rights to sell (profit from) photos of his war.
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JunkReallyMatters Apr 6, 2026 +4
Hmm. Chinese companies could probably make bank selling the images.
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AENocturne Apr 6, 2026
Oh cool, Planet Labs in the news
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