http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-197844091 October 2012
Gmail access restored inside Iran
Iran has lifted restrictions imposed a week ago on the secure version of the Google email service and search engine.
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Many Western people don't seem to know that the Internet is also massively controlled and censored in the hypocritical Western countries like many European ones (*).
The main difference is that the Iranian government says that they censor, whilst the rotten West claims to have freedom of ... whatever, and accuses the Iran of being an anti-freedom, censorship state, blah-blah. (I'm so tired of our Western lies that I can hardly be bothered to quote them anymore.)
By the way, seeing the incredible filth on for example the Jєωιѕн Youtube, which makes Sodom & Gomorrah look like peanuts, I understand the Iranian wish to censor that website. (Those who still want to download the good sermons of the resistance priests and know the direct URL from Cathinfo, can for example disable in their Firefox browsers the pictures and
Javascript for Youtube, and so aren't bothered with the Youtube picture bars anymore.)
(*) It starts with the censorship of search engines' results to suppress politically incorrect or whatever-incorrect websites, and it ends with the physical elimination of such websites.
Those observing these tendencies closely know that by now most Western countries have forced their Internet Service Providers (ISP) to implement "hidden blacklists" controlled entirely by the governments, which disable the access to certain websites and domains completely. Technically the list containing these certain websites and domains is absolutely open ended i.e. could contain the entire Internet if needed. So actually these Western governments already have "off-switches" to cut their entire "national Internet" from the worldwide Internet -- this in fact is exactly what these liars hold against the Iran.
Let's remember this when today we're still able to access good informations on the Internet. Soon these sources will be switched off.