Interrupting Google’s untiring efforts to take over the world, Iran is reportedly planning to block YouTube. As reports, Mohammad Reza Miri, a member of the telecommunications ministry
committee responsible for filtering the Web in Iran, was quoted on Monday by the Mehr news agency as saying a recent Gmail block was an “involuntary” consequence of trying to reinforce
censorship of Google's YouTube video-sharing site. "Unfortunately, we do not yet have enough technical knowhow to differentiate between these two services,” he said. “We wanted to block
YouTube and Gmail was also blocked, which was involuntary.”
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