Iran Blocks, Unblocks Access to Google

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 17, 2007 @01:31AM from the can-jeeves-rise-to-the-challange dept.

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.

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That's the least of the problems with Iran today by dusanv · 2007-09-17 01:37 · Score: 4, Interesting

Censorship of Google is the least problem there today unfortunately.
Re:Censorship is the last resort of a failing regi by JustNiz · 2007-09-17 02:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

Th US has to stop trying to be the world police. Why should Iran just expect the US to jump in? They should grow some balls and try standing up for themselves.