Thursday, 27 September 2012
According to the Guardian, Iran to completely block access to sites google.com and gmail.com in response to placement on YouTube anti-Islamic video, provoking protests from around the world. "Google and Gmail will be filtered through the existing system in the country firewall until further notice," - said Abdolsamad Horamabadi, the Iranian government department responsible for online censorship and computer crime investigation.
According to him, this decision was taken after the religious majority in the country has put pressure on the authorities because of anti-Islamic video. Iranian media claim that although the authorities and are going to resort to such drastic measures, many of today's ordinary Iranians movie "innocent Muslims" do not touch them. As of midnight Monday access to Google c Iran was still open, but there was some Access to your email Gmail, as some local ISPs have blocked or partially restricted locally. Upgrading from 12:30 MSK: Google has announced that Iran has restricted access to your email from Gmail in the country. According to the monitoring Google Transparency Report, is currently understood about the total blocking Gmail not, many users of the service in the country report problems with access.
Note that in Iran Gmail is used not only as a consumer service or solution for communication of the political opposition, but also as a means of communication for local businesses. Recall also that Iran permanently banned from Facebook and Twitter.
