It appears you have not yet registered with our community. To register please click here...

 
Go Back [M] > Madshrimps > WebNews
Iran blocks Google and Gmail Iran blocks Google and Gmail
FAQ Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read


Iran blocks Google and Gmail
Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 24th September 2012, 09:37   #1
[M] Reviewer
 
Stefan Mileschin's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Romania
Posts: 148,055
Stefan Mileschin Freshly Registered
Default Iran blocks Google and Gmail

Tehran is claiming that its move to block access to Google and Gmail is in reaction to an anti-Islam film that triggered protests across the world.

The movie, Innocence of Muslims, which appears to have been created to start riots in Arab countries, has placed Google in a position where Iran wanted. The Iranians had wanted a pretext to ban Google from Iran for a while, but really did not have a good reason until YouTube refused to take down the anti-Islam film.

Now the Iranian government can safely say they are saving Iranians from the evil Satanic Google.

According to the Guardian, Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, an Iranian official with the state-run body in charge of online censorship and computer crimes, said that Google and Gmail will be filtered throughout the country until further notice.

He did not indicate if the filtering would be temporary or permanent, however smart money is on a total ban. The Iranians are currently planning to pull their country out of the Internet and run the nation as a big Intranet of state controlled information. Google and its webmail operation would have no place in such a scheme anyway.

Iranians do not really care that much about the movie, according to the Guardian, but are a bit miffed that they have lost their Gmail accounts.

Golnaz Esfandiari, who has a blog on the Radio Free Europe website, Persian Letters, tweeted: "By blocking Gmail/Google, #Iran government punishes its own people over anti-Islam movie. Most Iranians have not seen it/don't care."

But the move comes just as the Iranians move to stage one of their cunning Internet plan.

Ali Hakim-Javadi, deputy communications and technology minister, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency said that all governmental agencies and offices have been connected to the national information network.

Iran is worried about another outside cyber attack, particularly if it gets involved in a war with Israel or the US.

http://news.techeye.net/internet/ira...ogle-and-gmail
Stefan Mileschin is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Google To Include People's Gmail In Search Results Stefan Mileschin WebNews 0 9th August 2012 08:16
Google rolls out improved Gmail search, scans your emails for better results Stefan Mileschin WebNews 0 22nd May 2012 09:43
PSA: If you purchased extra Gmail storage, your Google Drive just got bigger Stefan Mileschin WebNews 0 25th April 2012 08:33
Google to angry GMail users: we know better Stefan Mileschin WebNews 0 24th April 2012 07:34
Google Sending E-Mails In Gmail Users' Names Stefan Mileschin WebNews 0 7th March 2012 07:42
Google spills the beans on Gmail revamp a bit early (video) Stefan Mileschin WebNews 0 21st October 2011 09:07
Google takes Gmail offline... read and search GMAIL without internet access jmke WebNews 0 28th January 2009 18:06
Google Lawyers Admit To gmail Privacy Leak jmke WebNews 1 28th July 2006 11:29

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 20:49.


Powered by vBulletin® - Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO