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Google Releases Software To Iran

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the zomg-they-can-see-your-house dept.

eldavojohn writes "After working closely with US officials following the lifting of export restrictions, Google has announced that their Google Earth, Picasa and Chrome are now available for download in Iran. US sanctions once prevented this but now Google has created versions of its popular software that block all Iranian government IP addresses from utilizing them — thus satisfying the new restrictions."

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  1. Re:Home of the Free by conspirator57 · · Score: 5, Informative

    apparently you are either woefully uninformed or have a very selective memory regarding US government behavior.

    our government has tortured people to death very recently. some of them we knew to be innocent. we have partnered with governments every bit as hateful as iran to outsource even more torture (Egypt as an example.) take your strawmen elsewhere

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    "If still these truths be held to be
    Self evident."
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  2. Re:Home of the Free by conspirator57 · · Score: 4, Informative

    given that the US is directly responsible for the deaths of well over 100,000 people in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last 10 years alone, i think that you are the one employing moral relativism.

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    "If still these truths be held to be
    Self evident."
    -Edna St. Vincent Millay