I should also point out that the FCC and a host of wireless and wired ISPs in the U.S. had a "fatwa" against fast internet forever and for reasons that varied from insufficient open radio frequencies to the fact that infrastructure that is as important as the interstate highway system was having to be built entirely without the assistance of a specified federal/state/county/municipal income or sales tax.
Flatly, it's like watching the religious version of the "spectrum crunch", complete with citizens and government complaining about crappy service and a name like "FCC" or "Verizon" or "Comcast" being replaced by "Grand Ayatollah".
Obviously I'm ignoring the human rights complaints constantly lodged against Iranian religious and government leaders, but then again I have to ignore one problem or another with the U.S. government on a daily basis no matter how hard we try to change it with a vote.
To be blunt, with the way "targeted advertising" work in that information you receive is 100% based on what your device or computer knows about you, you may want to consider the fact that when you have the NSA playing the role of "Network Administrator" in the U.S. by nature of the fact that they spliced the main fiber cable that carry all internet traffic in the U.S.?
Functionally speaking, you are getting the same thing. You are getting much more liberal access to the same thing, but you are getting the same thing.
You may also want to consider the fact that Iran just got done dealing with a computer virus that managed to worm its way through their nuclear facilities and then leak out to the rest of the PLANET. I mean ALL of it.
If you've been paying attention for the last 15 years, you will also notice that U.S. private citizens, the military, nuclear facilities, military hardware development facilities and basically everything else that has a network connection has been hacked from overseas and within.
I'm pretty sure Iran is happy to deploy a nationwide "intranet", but what isn't being said here is that every single other nation on the planet is basically pursuing the same thing.
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Re: It should be noted that the U.S. internet is the same
I should also point out that the FCC and a host of wireless and wired ISPs in the U.S. had a "fatwa" against fast internet forever and for reasons that varied from insufficient open radio frequencies to the fact that infrastructure that is as important as the interstate highway system was having to be built entirely without the assistance of a specified federal/state/county/municipal income or sales tax.
Flatly, it's like watching the religious version of the "spectrum crunch", complete with citizens and government complaining about crappy service and a name like "FCC" or "Verizon" or "Comcast" being replaced by "Grand Ayatollah".
Obviously I'm ignoring the human rights complaints constantly lodged against Iranian religious and government leaders, but then again I have to ignore one problem or another with the U.S. government on a daily basis no matter how hard we try to change it with a vote.
Some things just take time.
It should be noted that the U.S. internet is the same
To be blunt, with the way "targeted advertising" work in that information you receive is 100% based on what your device or computer knows about you, you may want to consider the fact that when you have the NSA playing the role of "Network Administrator" in the U.S. by nature of the fact that they spliced the main fiber cable that carry all internet traffic in the U.S.?
Functionally speaking, you are getting the same thing. You are getting much more liberal access to the same thing, but you are getting the same thing.
You may also want to consider the fact that Iran just got done dealing with a computer virus that managed to worm its way through their nuclear facilities and then leak out to the rest of the PLANET. I mean ALL of it.
If you've been paying attention for the last 15 years, you will also notice that U.S. private citizens, the military, nuclear facilities, military hardware development facilities and basically everything else that has a network connection has been hacked from overseas and within.
I'm pretty sure Iran is happy to deploy a nationwide "intranet", but what isn't being said here is that every single other nation on the planet is basically pursuing the same thing.