Iran’s Facebook Access Restored: BBC
As quickly (and as inexplicably) as it was blocked, Facebook is back in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not own up to his administration’s blocking of the social network in advance of the June...
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Denial-of-Service Attack Knocks Twitter Offline (Updated)
Twitter was shut down for hours Thursday morning by what it described as an “ongoing” denial-of-service attack, silencing millions of Tweeters. It was the first major outage the service has suffered in...
View ArticleTwitter Working to Thwart China, Iran Censors
Twitter is developing technology aimed at preventing the governments of China and Iran from censoring Tweets, co-founder Evan Williams told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the...
View ArticleSchmidt Hopes ‘Some Pressure’ Will Make China See Things Google’s Way
He said he didn’t want to talk about China while on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, but then Google CEO Eric Schmidt went right ahead and did so anyway. “We like what China is doing in ...
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Iran to Pull the Plug on Gmail?
Iran’s telecommunications agency plans to block Gmail in favor of an upcoming domestic e-mail service, according to The Wall Street Journal. The assertion merits just a brief mention in a lengthy...
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