Iran has imposed what Bloomberg Politics reports is a record-length internet blackout, with private business owners and industry officials warning the shutdown could trigger mass layoffs and widespread closures across the country.
The regime's calculation is plain: control the information, control the population. When a government's first move against economic distress is to blind its own citizens rather than answer for its failures, you are looking at a state that has made peace with devouring the people it claims to serve.
The Founders understood that a government which fears free information fears free men. Every tyrant eventually turns the lights off. The American republic was built on the opposite proposition — that the truth, however hard, is the only foundation worth standing on.