[caption id="attachment_3178" align="aligncenter" width="452"] Iran's internet cafe in Tehran[/caption]
Iranians received on Monday evening for a few hours of unlimited access to global internet networks Facebook and Twitter, which many Internet users to quickly appreciated as a new freedom of expression. But authorities but Wednesday again blocked access and justify it by the fact that it was a "technical fault".
"Absence Facebook filter last night is obviously a technical fault and our technological commission investigating the case," said the Iranian Meir agency Abdominal Islamabad, a representative office which access to internet filters.
Free access to a global network of Iranians completely by surprise and raised hopes that a new situation arose after the recent election of President Hassan. His predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had four years ago, blocking access to these networks initiated with the claim that it is a tool that is used by subversives to organize anti-government unrest.
Get free internet and in recent years in Iran could very experienced computer users who have managed to circumvent the security system Iranian web network. They use it as VPN tunnels, however, are prohibited by law in Iran.
Error or test?
According to the Office for the Supervision of the Internet was temporary access to social networks, web service providers mistake that led to the fact that the filters failed. Experts addressing the New York Times, however, speculate that it could be a deliberate test of how the Iranians unexpectedly acquired internet freedom react. Suggested would be the fact that the leading Iranian officials are not exactly new to the internet.
[caption id="attachment_3179" align="aligncenter" width="440"] Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Iran's spiritual leader, has his official Facebook page. It is maintained by "people close to him."[/caption]
"It seems that government authorities wanted to see what would happen if people stopped to block the web," said political analyst Farshad Ghorbanpour familiar with the situation in the Iranian government. "In Iran, something not uncommon."
Iran, however, prevent a similar theories. "God forbid that it was something other than a mistake," said a prominent Iranian judge Abdominal Islamabad. According to him, Facebook is the reason for frequent distribution in the USA. Iran's Fars agency also warned of the dangers of Facebook, "Facebook wants to blur the boundaries between private and public. On Facebook, there are no boundaries. This is extremely dangerous."
If you really cared about the test, the Iranian government has a lot to evaluate. Report that social networks are openly available, flew like lightning. Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times reporter in Tehran on Monday as one of the first reported on Twitter that he got on Twitter without any restrictions. The report gained a strong element of response to social networks and the Iranians congratulated people from all over the world.
Internet censorship in the world
Iran belongs, along with Cuba and China, the most famous censors its citizens access to the Internet. "Out" of the State or outside the permitted site, they get usually only tourists, people with special permission and of course those who are technically proficient and capable of sophisticated filters to bypass.
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p>According to the survey Freedom House.org organization that deals with monitoring restrictions on access to the Internet in individual countries, Iran is the biggest censors the Internet. The organization Reporters Without Borders it in its annual report indicates one of the main "enemies of the Internet"
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