‘Scottish’ pro-independence social media accounts have gone dark since the internet was turned off in Iran. Is anyone surprised…
UK Defence Journal has been tracking a suite of accounts which post rabid anti-UK content for a long time. Accounts which spend the entire time tweeting fake news like “Scotland received 20% fewer flu vaccines per capita than England this winter” ramped up their activity last week then suddenly stopped after Thursday night. When the internet switched off…
A similar pattern was observed last June after US and Israeli strikes hit internet access in Iran. Numerous accounts “stopped posting during the blackout, resuming only once connectivity returned. Subsequent transparency data released by X later confirmed that the same cluster of accounts was connected via the Iranian App Store while routing traffic through European VPN infrastructure.” Is the Ayatollah responsible for giving us Nicola Sturgeon – he may be more sadistic than anyone thought possible…
Business Secretary Peter Kyle told Times Radio that the government is considering banning X:
“Yes, of course. We gave these powers to Ofcom and not giving them the powers to Ofcom with the proviso that they will never be used. We gave very strident powers to Ofcom, which is our independent regulator, with very specific legal obligations to and the powers to use them in certain circumstances. So the law doesn’t allow for these sorts of powers to be used in certain circumstances.”