Yep, everything connecting to the Internet goes through the TIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication_Infrastructu...

Ministry of Information is a name with a certain feel

I probably spent far too much time looking into why they'd set themselves up with that kind of name... but it just nerd sniped me too hard to pass up.

Translation tools claim (I don't know enough to verify) a literal translation is "Ministry of Communications and Information Technology". I.e. they handle telecoms & IT, or "communications technology and information technology" if fully expanded.

But why bother switching it around to "Ministry of Information and Communications Technology" then? Apparently because that's what the order we call it in English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications... which surprised me because I didn't even know that was a term and I've only ever worked in the IT and telecoms jobs - WHTMA (We Have Too Many Acronyms).

You assume threats need to be made.

One doesn't get to be the head of a business in a country like Iran without being a True Believer.

I doubt there are many true believers. Most of the top brass are probably driven from sf interest. But loyalty is beyond doubt. At least until the regime is winning

Iran is kind of like russia thinking about it.

Russia's trying to censor some shit too by having outside ipv4 or something (dont know what its called) blocked and basically made a large intranet

But people could still buy vps and make it work somehow

So iran and russia are similar in that sense and this kinda puts things more into balance but I am sure that % of true believers/doing for self interest might vary or something

It's enough to be a True Obeyer.

they don't need to say the or else part since they control the whole country including the ISP.