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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Iran’s new Internet censorship move: blocking by file type

It's no secret that the Iranian government has a bit of an uncomfortable relationship with the internet. First of all, it's trying to build its own internet, at which point it supposedly would like to block out that "other" internet completely. It's also pretty aggressive in censoring various sites it doesn't like.

From TechDirt – Ever heard of a regime censoring the Net by file extension, such as audio, video and picture files? It was even used after the 2009 Iranian elections.

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