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I can confirm this. http://www.google.com http://www.google.com still works, but https://mail.google.com https://mail.google.com or https://www.google.com https

• w1ntermute 14y ago
  What's your plan once you're cut off from the internet? A satellite connection?
  • mtgx 14y ago
    Would something like this work? http://www.blockaid.me http://www.blockaid.me
    • w1ntermute 14y ago
      I'm not sure I understand. I thought Iran's plan was to physically sever the connection between its internet and the external one for the vast majority of citizens, similar to North Korea's Kwangmyong network[0]? 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_%28network%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_%28network%29
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      • pooriaazimi 14y ago
        No it's not. The"plan" is to have an slow global Internet connection (about 256 kbps) that connects you to The Internet (which is of course heavily filtered), and a faster (a few MBps), domestic intranet that connects offices, government agencies, banks, news agencies, universities and schools together. Home users can sign up for this intranet thing too, so purchasing (and downloading) a movie (from a server inside the country) would take a couple hours, not a day. That's the "carrot". Blocking google or gmail was never in that plan; dangerous social networks, like Facebook, twitter and G+ are all blocked (and have been, for years) of course. But a search engine or mail provider theoretically should be left alone!
        • tisme 14y ago
          There is this a nice John Gilmore quote regarding the internet and censorship, I sure hope it works out that way in this case. The big difference between NK and Iran is that in the Iranian case people will know what they are missing.
          • epscylonb 14y ago
            > The big difference between NK and Iran is that in the Iranian case people will know what they are missing. To begin with.
            • jlgreco 14y ago
              Exactly. Even one generation removed makes a hell of a difference. Hearing stories about something is worlds apart from actually knowing something. They are already 40 some years out from the revolution, the people who remember the proceeding society are starting to get old now. Even if the situation is not getting worse per se, they need to turn it around soon while they still have people who remember what it was like before, or they risk significant cultural loss.
              • gaius 14y ago
                It's weird how that works both ways. YouTube its hard to think is only actually 5 years old (possibly because it has been backfilled with content). But what people assume "has always been there" is actually quite fluid.
            • shimon_e 14y ago
              At least Iranian population is demographically and geographically more difficult to control than NK.
          • andreasvc 14y ago
            The quote is: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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  • zerostar07 14y ago
    A revolution
    • pm90 14y ago
      Yeah, because that really worked out so well the last time
      • chimeracoder 14y ago
        Which one? No, seriously, I'm not sure which one you're talking about (or if you're joking). Iran has had so many revolutions (many named after colors, interestingly). There was the one that everyone knows about (1979 - 'Islamic Revolution'), but there was also the White Revolution, the Persian Constitutional Revolution, and most recently the Green Revolution. I have a friend who is Persian and she often jokes that 'this next one had better succeed because we're running out of colors!'
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