Iran blocks access to Google and Gmail

Iran has blocked access to the Google search engine and the Gmail email service.

"I can confirm these sites have been filtered," said Hamid Shahriari, the secretary of Iran's National Council of Information, but no reason was given, Mehr news agency reported.

Iran has intense censorship on cultural products and internet access, banning thousands of websites containing sexual and politically critical material as well as women's rights and social networking sites.

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Well goodluck becoming a publisher in that country.

 

Heh, well...*sigh*

 

This form of national internet censorship is becoming a problem.

I know that leaders in the pack, China, are selling they technical know how to others repressive regimes.

They do this for political reasons, but this form of strick internet control can only hamper their economies.

 

Exactly and with Iran blocking access to Google and gmail; what's next?

 

I had ~10 visitors from Iran per month coming from Google search

 

oh that's why I heard that proxy site has lots of visitors from Iran.
Anyway Blocking google and gmail for the reason of cencorship, and what about researching?
For me I can't live without google for my internet life.

 

If the government of the country I lived in was blocking access to certain information and websites, I would move to another country that didnt. Simple as that.

 

Who knows may be iran wants google to share its adword revenue with govt of Iran .

 

Moving isn't easy man. why don't just try to tell the gov about how important the sites they try to block... etc...

 

Poor them.. if I lived in Iran I would immigrate..
Controlling people like that is really unfair!