Iran Blocks, Unblocks Access to Google

morpheus83 writes "Iran has blocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service as part of a clampdown on material deemed to be offensive. Hamid Shahriari, the secretary of Iran's National Council of Information did not explain why the sites were being blocked. Google, Gmail and several other foreign sites appeared to be inaccessible to Iranian users from Monday morning. Iran has tough censorship on cultural products and internet access, banning thousands of websites and blogs containing sexual and politically critical material as well as women's rights and social networking sites." That didn't take long. Iran has now unblocked Google claiming the censorship was an error.

Comments

Re:Censorship is the last resort of a failing regi

[427_ci_505]

And I'll bet you anything their efforts will be ignored by the US, they'll get bitch-slapped by the regime for stepping out of the line, and they won't be so pro-American anymore.

Re:Information needs to be free

[DJ Jones]

Treating your citizens like children? You mean like, convincing them to go to war under false pretense and keeping them in check with phony scare tactics?

Regime change begins at home.

Re:You can't "slap a Jap" anymore

[jasonditz]

Indeed, remember earlier this year when it was widely reported that Iran was requiring its Jews to wear badges similar to the ones in Nazi Germany? Remember all the outrage on Fox News about how they have to be stopped, and military force is the only thing those people understand?

The next day it was revealed that the story was a complete fabrication made up by a pro-war Canadian newspaper called the National Post. Remember all those apologies Fox News made for nearly lying us into war again? Me neither...