Saturday, September 29, 2012

Google, Gmail blocked as Iran pushes ‘national Internet’

<p>TEHRAN -- Iran has shut off access to Google and Gmail inside the country, a step eyed by Web activists with concern as the nation's leaders seek to wall off a corner of cyberspace separate from the global Internet.</p><p>As of Monday, Iranians received an announcement via text message that quoted Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, secretary of an official group that scours the Web for banned content.</p><p>"Due to the repeated demands of the people, Google and Gmail will be filtered nationwide," the message said. "They will remain filtered until further notice."</p><p>The "demands" appear to be tied to an online video mocking the prophet Muhammad, which Google has restricted in some countries but declined to completely scrub from YouTube.</p><p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/iran-google-gmail-blocked.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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