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Washington - The United States social networking site Facebook on Saturday said it had received reports its website had been blocked in Iran, lamenting the apparent government bar as "a shame".

"We are disappointed to learn of reports that users in Iran may not have access to Facebook," the company told AFP in a statement.

One Iranian news agency reported earlier that the government had blocked access to Facebook ahead of June presidential polls, allegedly to prevent supporters of the leading opposition candidate from using the site for his campaign.

Facebook said it was investigating the reports, and expressed disappointment that the site was apparently blocked "at a time when voters are turning to the Internet as a source of information about election candidates and their positions.

"It is always a shame when countries' cultural and political concerns lead to limits being placed on the opportunity for sharing and expression that the Internet provides."

One Facebook page, dedicated to Mir Hossein Mousavi, a rival of the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has more than 5 200 supporters.

Iranian state-controlled television and radio have already been the focus of debate over whether candidates will get equal treatment.

Facebook, founded in 2004 by then Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, claims to have 175 million members worldwide.

In Iran, the service is normally available in Farsi and in English. - AFP
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http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iArticleId=4998146#continue_article

Odd that this would happen in such an open, free and fair society.......:rolleyes:
 
I've got a Chinese friend who says she can't access Youtube anywhere in her country, perhaps blocked too. Anyone able to confirm that?
 
PeterCH said:
Maybe they just want their people to work instead of producing rubbish Web 2.0 content?

Ban MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and other childish rubbish, I say.
Keep LinkedIn (subscription based) and similar products for professionals and businessmen.
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Then ban it during the working week from 8am to 6pm :p
 
PeterCH said:
Maybe they just want their people to work instead of producing rubbish Web 2.0 content?

Ban MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and other childish rubbish, I say.
Keep LinkedIn (subscription based) and similar products for professionals and businessmen.
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You can ban MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and MYBB at work but what I do at home is my business.
 
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Nothing wrong with this.
Facebook groups and promoting is just a way to descriminate against other parties and cause ****. Same thing that happened to us.

I guess Obama used it well, but it shouldnt be used by other countries imo.

I guess they want to run a clean and fair campaign.
Nothing wrong with that.
 
JHatman said:
I've got a Chinese friend who says she can't access Youtube anywhere in her country, perhaps blocked too. Anyone able to confirm that?
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I spent a few years in China and can confirm that YouTube is one of many sites blocked, but I did not come across any of them that weren't using proxies to access anything they liked.
It was quite funny that they allowed BBC-World on TV, but you could not access the web site - any time the BBC broadcast something related to China (good or bad) the channel would go blank .
 
Every hour your country blocks a site like that is an hour your population regresses. At least that is the way I see it. Choices are fix your countries problems or block reporting on them, you never see a liberal country trying this and succeeding, or do you ?
 
Balstrome said:
Every hour your country blocks a site like that is an hour your population regresses. At least that is the way I see it. Choices are fix your countries problems or block reporting on them, you never see a liberal country trying this and succeeding, or do you ?
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Regarding Facebook? Ill say the other way around, more progress with less Facebook.
 
JK8 said:
Nothing wrong with this.
Facebook groups and promoting is just a way to descriminate against other parties and cause ****. Same thing that happened to us.

I guess Obama used it well, but it shouldnt be used by other countries imo.

I guess they want to run a clean and fair campaign.
Nothing wrong with that.
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WTF. What happened to freedom of speech :o

Frankie said:
I spent a few years in China and can confirm that YouTube is one of many sites blocked, but I did not come across any of them that weren't using proxies to access anything they liked.
It was quite funny that they allowed BBC-World on TV, but you could not access the web site - any time the BBC broadcast something related to China (good or bad) the channel would go blank .
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What other news channels can you access there
 
PeterCH said:
Maybe they just want their people to work instead of producing rubbish Web 2.0 content?

Ban MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and other childish rubbish, I say.
Keep LinkedIn (subscription based) and similar products for professionals and businessmen.
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You must be a fun guy to work with...

By the way, WTF are you doing on MyBB producing non work related content?! Get back to work!!
 
Alan said:
WTF. What happened to freedom of speech :o



What other news channels can you access there
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It exists, freedom of anonymous text is the problem!
Besides why would they allow americans to own their campaigns? Zuckerberg owns everything on Facebook!
 
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