Iran Unblocks Google Email Again After Officials Complain -- Reuters
Iranian authorities have reopened access to Google Inc's email service a week after blocking it, a government official and Iranians said on Monday.
Iran maintains one of the world's largest Internet filters, blocking access to tens of thousands of websites on the grounds that they are criminal or immoral, but the block on Gmail had even prompted complaints in parliament.
"The council on Internet filtering communicated its order to the Telecommunications Ministry regarding the lifting of the ban on the Gmail service," Mohammad Reza Aghamiri, a member of the committee, told the Mehr news agency.
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My Comment: If there is one thing that really gets young people really steamed-up it is when their internet access is blocked or restricted. The Iranian government is playing with "fire" by imposing these restrictions .... and I guess some of them have figured it out .... especially from the legislators.
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