Iran Plans Closed Intranet to Stifle Social Networking and Email
Iran announced Thursday that they will be setting up a national Intranet and blocking sites like Google Plus, Yahoo, Google and Hotmail to establish a “clean internet”. Whether the goal is cleanliness or suppression is debatable, but this does mean that many of these American services will be replaces with government services like Iran Mail and Iran Search Engine.
This comes months after Twitter was used as a main vehicle for the “Day of Rage” protests against the government.
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