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Except that PressTV itself thinks this may have actually been a hack. Perhaps it is a psyop to press the buttons of those who do not buy absurd official narratives and get us jumping up and down making fools of ourselves as usual.
“A US official told the Associated Press that the majority of websites were linked to Iranian “disinformation” efforts.
Notices appeared on Iran’s Press TV and Al-Alam, as well as two of the Yemen Houthi movement’s al-Masirah websites, all of which were taken offline on Tuesday with banners reading: “This website has been seized… by the United States Government in accordance with a seizure warrant.”
The websites were allegedly taken down in a joint operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Bureau of Industry and Security. However, neither agency has independently confirmed the validity of the claim.
‘This seizure … reveals once again the deceit of the free speech slogans that America promotes’
– Al-Masirah News
CNN also reported that it had received confirmation that the US was behind the seizures. According to unnamed officials, the US seized roughly three dozen websites, the majority of which were linked to Iranian disinformation efforts.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-news-websites-seized-claims-us-government
Well, there is not much left to do.
China have too much hybrid power, Russia threaten to hit our Command Centres, Iran developed their own stupid missiles and threaten to close the strait.
In a show of force out from a position of strength we sized the little Iranian site Press TV, after we sanctioned the $5000 budget SouthFront, for their malign influence on the global usury scene.
We defeated Grenada and closed down Superlove, and America is ganna win this world war the same way! https://www.afka.net/images/Magazines/1969/1969-04-xx%20Superlove%20n18%2001.jpg
Nevertheless this put the whole internet in geopardy. I think it’s a great escalation.
The Israelis pull the strings and the marionettes in DC respond.
The path ahead for Iran is to focus on economic development and prosperity.
There’s plenty of time to destroy Israel’s dream of dominating the ME.
Of course, the only thing ‘seized’ is the name ending in ‘.com’.
Any data hosted by Iran can still be served through another name that is not managed by a US-based company.
(although I would not be surprised to find them fiddling with physical infrastructure, at least in locations where it can be reached by <cough>Russian hackers</cough>)
Big deal News: Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Aramco had sold 49% of its pipeline business for $12.4 billion to a consortium of American, Emirati, Chinese and South Korean companies.
That’s pindo “diplomacy” at work. They couldn’t rig the elections, so that a more “friendly” president was elected, and they resort to the usual “seizing” of foreign property in violation of international law, invoking their “rules based international order”.
PS: Technically pindos “seized” the name server entries in the .com TLD, (re)pointing them to ones owned by the pindo gov.
What a ‘free world’:
Querying 09/11 = Conspiracy
Access to alternative free information = fake news, censorship
Investigative journalism = Spying charges (Assange et al.)
Support for Palestina = Anti-semitism
Querying/Being critical to US = Anti-American
Objections to lately imposed race priorities = Racist, White Supremacist
Objections to lately imposed gender priorities = Homophobic
Russophobia/Sinophobia = OK
Cheers from France.
This sort of thing has been going on since years. Some time last year a whole bunch of critical websites and blogs were “disappeard” in the same way. Here are just two of them …
American Herald Tribune
Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20201101/ahtribune.com/
After : https://ahtribune.com/
Critical Studies
Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20200804/criticalstudies.org/
After : https://criticalstudies.org/
A while ago Helen Buyniski wrote that even the Internet Archive itself is now compelled to biased “fact-checking”. So, in the future we probably won’t even be allowed to see the history of websites that have been “disappeared” in this way …
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/505437-internet-archive-censorship-slippery-slope/
… it’s all rotten to the core and will remain so, as long as people use .com, .net, .org domains whose registration is entirely controlled by US institutions IANA and ICANN. The same goes for the oh-so-convenient offerings that corporate america has in store for all of us … Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, WordPress etc. etc… I don’t understand why people still fall for this bs.
This was instigated by OFAC ( Office of Foreign Asset Control). This organisation controls all financial transactions globally and is part of the US government’s treasury dept.
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-sanctions-websites-justice-disinformation-media/31321598.html
i guess they’re now “diversifying” by micro-managing internet domains..
The.com. and .net are not actually affiliated with any country so in theory US government has no right to them.
What they appear to have done is asked the US based company that licences these domains to revoke the licence…
It shows, yet again, that US private companies / organisations/ banks are unable hold custodial roles for any international activity. The Iranians will recover from this but the damage to US interests will be enormous as the world scrambles to find alternatives to US based entities.
Moving quickly from exceptional & indispensable to insignificant & redundant …
Such blatant ‘in-you-face’ actions speaks perhaps of their belief that time is over for us – they have us in the great reset grip and we wont get out?
More about OFAC from the US justice dept:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-seizes-websites-used-iranian-islamic-radio-and-television-union-and-kata-ib
“The 33 domains are owned by a United States company. IRTVU did not obtain a license from OFAC prior to utilizing the domain names.”
That’s bullshit. Domain names are not subject to “licenses” from some pindo gov agency. When you register a domain, it becomes your property. As long as it isn’t already owned by another party, or a registered trademark is involved, you can register it. When the domain expires, you usually have a grace period to renew, or it’s up for grabs for anyone (like presstv.info, or presstv.biz).
Some “cheap” registrars will register it in their own name, and offer it for some small fee, so you have to be cautious.
As can be seen, the domain is almost 20years old, and currently registered from NZ. I really doubt it that some pindo company registered it then, and somehow the mullahs could use it for free for 2 decades.
It’s like jewtube censoring, if something is unwanted, suddenly some “copyright holder” shows up, and pretends to own it.
The name servers
ns1.presstv.ir
ns2.presstv.ir
were deleted, and pindo (amazon) ones replaced:
ns-1088.awsdns-08.org
ns-1900.awsdns-45.co.uk
ns-388.awsdns-48.com
ns-977.awsdns-58.net
Whois Record ( last updated on 2021-06-23 )
What exactly is bullshit, Ossie?
You’re surprised the US bypassed internet law (or any law)? Lol where have you been all this time? The name of the game is “might is right”.
BTW, you only “own” the domain as long as you pay and renew the lease/licence. It’s not a one-off transaction. So yes you can have domains that are 20, 30 40 years old as long as you ‘ve made your payments.
Sorry to be that radical, but USA is the biggest threat to the world peace…
Last year, American social media mouthpieces like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter censored content and accounts that opposed the American assassination of General Suleimani, who was on a diplomatic trip to Iraq, which the USA was notified of.
Yet, the Americans took this opportunity to murder a foreign military leader–a crime, an act of terrorism, and an act of war all rolled into one.
Apparently, opposing American state terrorism is now a Thought Crime.
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter remove accounts and content opposing the illegal assassination of Iranian General Suleimani
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/16/tube-j16.html
> seizes iranian website
> labels the notice in, uh, arabic
this is dubya-level not understanding the difference between iraq and iran
Seems like the equivalent of the phone company cancelling your phone number because they don’t like the topics of your conversations.
I thought the idea of the internet was to create a WORLDWIDE web! Only part of the lines and servers are based in the United States. Seems a vast overreach by Uncle Sam once again of power that he should not legitimately have. It’s not like he didn’t have carte blanche access to spy on everything communicated over any given domain on the planet. DARPA long ago arranged for every signal over phone or internet lines to filter through their spy center, I think in San Francisco, where every byte is recorded for their use to pursue you if they wish.
The world needs an expose on this bull sh!t as well as the fate of the world’s real life Uncle Duke: John McAffee who was most likely Epsteined in Spain. What goods did he have on the world’s most powerful and wealthy SOB’s? Not at all like him to snuff himself. We need an Assange to get to the truth… but he may be the next target.