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Whose Holy Cyber War Is It, Anyways?
Long a tool employed against the clerical regime’s critics, web filtering and detention are suddenly a weapon in the ongoing power struggle within Iran’s conservative camp…
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Iranian officials have been promising the launch of a national Internet since at least 2006, but have provided little details about its scope. Slowly, details are emerging in one of the world’s toughest Internet censorship regimes.
On February 20, for the second time in recent weeks, web users in Iran reported that their access to Gmail, Yahoo mail, and HTTPS websites had been blocked.Some Iranians told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda that the usual antifiltering tools they had been using in the past to access blocked websites, were not working anymore.
A few users contacted by RFE/RL on February 21 said they managed to access their Gmail accounts, while others complained that they still couldn’t access their mails and some websites. The reason for the Internet disruption is not clear, and officials have failed to clarify the issue.There has been speculation that the recent disruptions are related to the launch of the national Internet…[READ MORE] -
Reports that Iran has stepped up its Internet censorship in recent days — as evidenced by a general slowdown of the web, Internet blackouts, and the blocking of sites such as Google — has raised speculation that the country might be testing its controversial “national Internet.” [READ MORE]
