Hacker News Reader

Comment by stunt | Hacker News Reader

So their government is blocking Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Telegram, Signal, BBC, CNN, Netflix, and probably many other social and media platforms.

Meanwhile we are blocking Iranians to access Docker, Slack, Gitlab, Google Code, Github(Github until recently), Paypal, Apple Store, Play Store, AWS, Coursera, Adobe, Nvidia, AVG, Avast, Symantec, McAfee, Matlab!!, Oracle and many more.

It should be really fun to use Internet in Iran.

View on HN

It is not fun. Trust me. I am an Iranian and I used to sell VPN back in Iran when I was in high school. I had hundreds of users and I was threatened with prosecution and I left the country. Literally everything is blocked except government or university websites. On the positive side, you can Torrent as much as you want or download any music or hack websites and it is completely fine :)

I never see Iranian IPs on torrents. Is that because they are all on VPNs?

I am not sure. I never had any problem downloading Torrent back then without VPN. I have been living in the U.S. for 12+ years. Things may have changed.

Spot on! This is the 21st century's version of being born into a poor African American family.

Jokes aside it's truely painful. I was lucky to have a job that got me out easily. Though it felt embarrassing when I was seeing everyone uses Docker and AWS extensively at my new job while I had never used them properly not because I wasn't smart enough but just because of where I born :(

Netflix even blocks VPS IPs, to enforce their regional locks or something.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com