It’s difficult and yeah they are very rebellious and brave, i don’t participate in protests for the act since it’s too dangerous without arms and they use military grade equipment, i am male, everyone uses a vpn but even without a vpn they don’t do much digital surveillance as far as i know unless you are in a minority like you have your ID card religion set to anything other than muslim or are a known activist they prefer using propaganda and massacre to digital surveillance, yes they do arbitrary arrests for taking photographs, interviewing locals, etc etc if you hold a western passport, the protests stopped because around 36,000 citizens were massacred and we felt it wasn’t going to achieve anything anymore unless we are armed, the war kinda turned some weak government haters into nationalists that supported the gov solely for being anti-west but not many people unified in the government the people unified in anger against the gov in the war for shutting down the internet and continuing executions, they fund hezbollah with all their effort because they can fool some tankies that oh look don’t you see we are anti-west and we love palestine and freedom? yeah i don’t like colonization like the uk did with pressuring qajar and also russia with caucaus, most of iranian citizens hate seperatism and would hate kurdistan to seperate, very few outlets report about iran because press freedom is pretty bad but there is a news outlet iran international with a network of journalists inside iran while they are biased in their reporting they are the best and also the independent sometimes does news on us that is pretty good, nobody likes the government having access to uranium, considering the hardliners taking over after the assasination of multiple politicians which made the authoritorianism even worse, if they could they would absolutely make nuclear weapons and use it against the west, north korea already has nuclear weapons so nothing could be done and israel is their ally and pakistan is not as anti-west as the iranian government which solely exists to hate on the west and spread extremist islamist shia stuff, not to represent the whole of iran but me and my friends don’t mind foreign intervention to stop them developing nuclear weapons but trump fucking botched it and just made their propaganda stronger but we still don’t want them meddling in our post-authoritorianism politics, i am pretty happy to answer further questions in c/iran which i moderate and would like for it to be more active.
Hi i’m iranian, deploy matrix, that’s what most people did in the last blackout in the war, you can either keep federation on to help the load of others or turn off federation to get out the radar, theres no way to register a VPS inside the country under a false name so be very careful.