In the prelude to a private, national ‘intranet’, Iran has Google and Gmail will be blocked. The blockade would be linked with a controversial video that circulated on YouTube and in which islam is ridiculous would be made.
The blockade of Google and Gmail after previously Facebook and YouTube inaccessible to Iranians were made. The blockade of the two services, according to Reuters, perhaps out of revenge for a controversial islamvideo that YouTube-owner Google refuses to remove, it went Sunday evening in.
The Iranian government, however, wants to continue. It was already known that Iran with its own domestic communications network, may be completely disconnected from the rest of the internet. Iranian authorities would have already been connected to the ‘national information network’, and the next step is now to ordinary Iranians, says a minister.
More than once deferred plan, which was previously announced as a ‘halal internet’, according to Iranian media, now in march 2013 and fully rolled out. It is unclear if the Iranians than the access to the rest of the internet will lose. That would mean that they can no longer rely on techniques such as Tor and vpns to blockages to circumvent, something which is now already is obstructed.