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Gmail bail for Iran
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS in Iran have announced that the country has permanently suspended Google's Gmail service and will be rolling out its own email service for the Iranian people.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google posted a statement that said, "We have heard from users in Iran that they are having trouble accessing Gmail. We can confirm a sharp drop in traffic, and we have looked at our own networks and found that they are working properly. Whenever we encounter blocks in our services we try to resolve them as quickly as possibly because we strongly believe that people everywhere should have the ability to communicate freely online."
After the Chinese censorship debacle, we were expecting Google to follow suit and publicly renounce the Iranian move but it has opted for diplomacy rather than risk embarrassment. Less can be said for the US State department, which waded in with sharply worded criticism, saying, "The Iranian government seems determined to deny its citizens access to information and the ability to express themselves freely, network and share ideas."
It's no coincidence that the timing of the ban comes as Iran celebrates the 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution. Iran is willing to make symbolic gestures of defiance against the West and its Gmail ban must be framed in the context of the government's claims that political unrest last year was sponsored by the US CIA. µ
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Can I have cranberries in my yellowcake, please?
Gmail Buzz, on by default, either.
The reason iran is forced (or has that excuse) to use nuclear is because of all the sanctions and blockades, isn't it ironic that the stuff the western politicians think up only helps what it supposedly tries to halt, bloody typical.
Let's give our politicians a raise, and more votes.
And as for google, I don't know, I'm sure the freaking NSA is reading every iranian gmail account so I wonder if they are really that worse off, regardless of PR words by google.
The normal iranian should get some russian or something email address and not rely on their own gov nor the US one if they want to be left alone and prevent abuse.
So how is Iran going to POWER their new Gmail-replacement mail servers? No, would not want to accept free energy from the USA, that wouldn't to at all. Another reason to build more nuclear reactors...pass the yellow cake, please!
It's not all that hard. Google's Gmail service has a limited number of servers with identifiable IP addresses. Sure, it's perhaps a large number of sites but still a finite number.
All anyone has to do in order to block access to Gmail is block all of those IP addresses for https access, port 443 IIRC. That's not really difficult to do.
can someone explain how the iran
gov. can block gmail access ?
Mike, Gmail is served through https, which means it's encrypted. Probably the Iranian government can't spy on its users because of the encryption, and they are probably not happy about it.
gmail isn't the only email available, after all.