Iran government blocks use of popular Internet tool

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Iran has stepped up its efforts to deny its citizens unfettered access to the Internet, blocking a popular tool used to get around government blocks.

Quite aware of the censorship they face, many Iranians use proxy servers over virtual private networks to circumvent government restrictions and mask their activities. However, officials now say they have blocked use of the “illegal” tool.

“Within the last few days illegal VPN ports in the country have been blocked,” said Ramezanali Sobhani-Fard, the head of parliament’s information and communications technology committee, according to Reuters. “Only legal and registered VPNs can from now on be used.”

Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace announced in January that it would soon begin selling “official” and “legal” VPN services to companies and corporations that needed them for security.

“By launching this program, Iranian government can prosecute users who are violating state laws and Internet Filtering Committee will be able to take offenders to national courts under supervision of judiciary service,” council Secretary Mehdi Akhavan Behabadi told the Tehran Chronicle last month.

Access to major international news sites social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter is blocked by the country’s government, which has been waging a battle against what it calls “inappropriate” content on the Internet. After blocking access to Google’s search engine and YouTube in September, Iran’s government launched a video-sharing site to promote Iranian culture.

The country’s government cut off access to the Internet several times in the past couple of years. The crackdown comes just a few months ahead of a presidential election scheduled for June, its first since 2009 when the government also cut Internet access .

cnet

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36 responses to “Iran government blocks use of popular Internet tool”

  1. wargame1 Avatar

    Who is supplying these equipment to the Iranian regime?

    1. AntiFSA002 Avatar
      AntiFSA002

      Is it hard to believe that Iran has the know how to produce such equipment Wargame. What Iran has achieved in 10 years, the Arab world needs another 100 to even start to thinking to Achieve. Keep preaching war and death Wargame, that’s all most Arabs are good for.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        And if the ‘Supreme Council of Cyberspace’ is as good at industrial espionage as the Most Supremely Chinese, wargame shouldn’t even ask the question. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      2. wargame1 Avatar

        Tell us your bankrupted economy

      3. wargame1 Avatar

        Blocking the internet is criminal. The same communist behavior under a supposed Islamic package. The Iranian government is bankrupt and achieve hatrad and rejection from not only the Iranian people but also from others around the world. Some days before Iranian diplomats were expelled from Canada. Now when this corrupt government block the internet and try to control the flow of information in their favor then I have a problem on your achievement theory.

      4. Patience2 Avatar
        Patience2

        The Greeks, THEY have the knowledge. The Iranians … I wonder.

        1. IraniAngel Avatar
          IraniAngel

          yeah and look at the greeks now so as the saying goes: he who laughs last, laughs best.

    2. Patience2 Avatar
      Patience2

      Probably China.

  2. wargame1 Avatar

    Who is supplying these equipment to the Iranian regime?

    1. AntiFSA002 Avatar
      AntiFSA002

      Is it hard to believe that Iran has the know how to produce such equipment Wargame. What Iran has achieved in 10 years, the Arab world needs another 100 to even start to thinking to Achieve. Keep preaching war and death Wargame, that’s all most Arabs are good for.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        And if the ‘Supreme Council of Cyberspace’ is as good at industrial espionage as the Most Supremely Chinese, wargame shouldn’t even ask the question. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      2. wargame1 Avatar

        Tell us your bankrupted economy

      3. wargame1 Avatar

        Blocking the internet is criminal. The same communist behavior under a supposed Islamic package. The Iranian government is bankrupt and achieve hatrad and rejection from not only the Iranian people but also from others around the world. Some days before Iranian diplomats were expelled from Canada. Now when this corrupt government block the internet and try to control the flow of information in their favor then I have a problem on your achievement theory.

      4. Patience2 Avatar
        Patience2

        The Greeks, THEY have the knowledge. The Iranians … I wonder.

        1. IraniAngel Avatar
          IraniAngel

          yeah and look at the greeks now so as the saying goes: he who laughs last, laughs best.

    2. Patience2 Avatar
      Patience2

      Probably China.

  3. John 8:32
    And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.โ€

    1. Prophettttt Avatar
      Prophettttt

      Are you competing with this Prophet?lol

  4. Plumbline Avatar
    Plumbline

    John 8:32
    And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.โ€

    1. Prophettttt Avatar
      Prophettttt

      Are you competing with this Prophet?lol

  5. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Plus รงa change, plus la meme chose. Techies always find ‘the way’.

  6. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Plus รงa change, plus la meme chose. Techies always find ‘the way’.

  7. IraniAngel Avatar
    IraniAngel

    look on the bright side. Al-yahudiya is blocked, al-jazeera is blocked, cnn is blocked, bbc is blocked and yalibnan too.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Hahahaha .. please block Google too. ๐Ÿ˜‰ (oh .. they did .. hmmm)

      1. IraniAngel Avatar
        IraniAngel

        do you have a problem with google?

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Yah .. all the damn advertising they ‘target’ me with – aside from trying to nail me as a ‘demographic component’.

          1. IraniAngel Avatar
            IraniAngel

            You are right. The worst part is that they pass all the information to the CIA. Hence CIA knows more about us than we know about ourselves. Iran must get of this as soon as possible.

      2. Hariri Assaoudi Avatar
        Hariri Assaoudi

        well, if you think google is the mother of inventions, you are wrong; google is a business tool which allows some illiterate to misunderstand things and pretend to be phd’s; it is a very dangerous tool: we say “al sila7 bi ‘id al khara bi yijrah” whereas pro’s do not find the necessary information unless if they pay for it

  8. IraniAngel Avatar
    IraniAngel

    look on the bright side. Al-yahudiya is blocked, al-jazeera is blocked, cnn is blocked, bbc is blocked and yalibnan too.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Hahahaha .. please block Google too. ๐Ÿ˜‰

      1. IraniAngel Avatar
        IraniAngel

        do you have a problem with google?

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Yah .. all the damn advertising they ‘target’ me with – aside from trying to nail me as a ‘demographic component’.

          1. IraniAngel Avatar
            IraniAngel

            You are right. The worst part is that they pass all the information to the CIA. Hence CIA knows more about us than we know about ourselves

      2. Hariri Assaoudi Avatar
        Hariri Assaoudi

        well, if you think google is the mother of inventions, you are wrong; google is a business tool which allows some illiterate to misunderstand things and pretend to be phd’s; it is a very dangerous tool: we say “al sila7 bi ‘id al khara bi yijrah” whereas pro’s do not find the necessary information unless if they pay for it

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