Facebook in Iran
Iran restores Facebook amid claims of election blackout
"Iran restored access to Facebook yesterday after a block on the social networking website last week generated accusations that the government was trying to muzzle one of the main presidential campaign tools of the reformist opposition.
"Facebook was cut off on Saturday, depriving challengers to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of a critical means of reaching out for the youth vote in the 12 June election...
"Authorities have not directly commented on the Facebook outage and the reason for its return was not immediately clear. It is not known whether the renewed access is permanent. In the past, Iranian authorities have restored then reimposed blocks on websites..."
posted by Ken Wedding @ 6:54 AM
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