Jason Rezaian

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511 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 26 May

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · How the Internet Could Help the Iranian People · 26 May 2026 podcast

And I can tell you, in a year and a half that I was in prison, I didn't have access to the internet.

And it's incredibly disorienting.

And it's also...

You don't realize until you don't have it how often you rely on it to answer a question in a day.

From things that you need to know to more mundane pieces of information.

You know, what was the name of the actor in that movie?

Who won the World Series in 1987?

Those sorts of things that are sort of standard parts of your life.

you're starved of all of that, right?

And imagine that on a mass scale.

I've seen a couple of really good essays where former political prisoners have written about the feeling of imprisonment, that not having access to the internet sort of replicates for them.

And I talk about this over and over and over again, hoping that someone in a position of power in the United States is listening,

and thinks to themselves, well, maybe there is something that we can do.

So, I mean, look, I think the silly idea is to activate and drop a lot of Starlink terminals.

I would support a contract, you know, a U.S.

government contract to do that because it would cost less than a couple of these missiles.

And we own the airspace at this point.

You know, they don't have air defenses.

Mm-hmm.

And then, you know, the use of this, I think every cell phone, every smartphone produced after 2020 or 2021 has the ability to connect to satellite internet.

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