To me this translates to, "America's military is being led incompetently and we don't want anyone to see the real damage being done to it."

Jesus fucking Christ, this is the stupidest possible way to start WWIII.

Probably because the New York times article that came out Thursday proved they bombed the school on purpose and refused to do more research and intelligence to confirm their targets.

The administration hates when evidence of their crimes come out, so they most likely threatened every GPS company they could to stop updated images.

A rather pointless move, since Russia is providing Iran with satellite intelligence. Not to mention, I highly doubt the feeds are encrypted, and if not than anyone with the will to download them and a couple hundred dollars could build a receiver. There's tutorials on how to do so on YouTube.

As if China and Russia didn't have satellites. They just don't want to admit they've stepped into deep doodoo, so the general public must not find out.

I think they are lying about the casualty counts as well. Pete looks extra scared in his most recent broadcasts, he's masking like a mfer. The bottle is his only safety.

Plenty of other places to supply Iran with satellite imagery.

Stating the obvious: Preventing US citizens and news agencies from easily accessing timely info that would contradict trump’s lies.

“Oops, the observable truth! Our bad.”

"Regional war" my ass...

The incredibly selective quote makes it sound like the imagery is being held indefinitely, but according to the article it is only being held for 4 days before becoming publicly available as normal. Furthermore, the hold does not apply to imagery inside Iran.

To quote more from the article:

“In response to the conflict in the Middle East, Planet is implementing temporary restrictions on data access within specific areas of the affected region,” Planet said in a statement emailed to Ars. “Effective immediately, all new imagery collected over the Gulf States, Iraq, Kuwait, and adjacent conflict zones will be subject to a mandatory 96-hour delay before it is made available in our archive.”

Imagery over Iran will remain available as soon as it is acquired, the company said. “This change applies to all users except authorized government users who maintain immediate access for mission-critical operations.”

Calling it a regional war proves they're bought

Russia is sharing these images with Iran anyway.

The military censor in Israel does the exact same thing: ostensibly to prevent enemies from using the data to improve their systems, in reality as an attempt to keep domestic morale high (it only ever manages to slow down the inevitable fall, though).

The losses on the American/Israeli side are so low they need to censor any publicly available information. Truly nothing to see here. In fact, they're doing you a favour by saving the time you would have wasted looking for damage done by Iran that clearly doesn't exist!

Imagine a world where only one country had the monopoly of information

It feels reeeeallll fucking weird to have just started watching Pluto this week, having previously had no idea what it was about