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Iran president vetoes WhatsApp ban

Accepted submission by AnonTechie at 2014-05-07 20:07:22
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Iran president vetoes WhatsApp ban: reports

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has vetoed a plan to ban WhatsApp, following a row over censorship of the popular messaging application, media reports said Wednesday. Access to social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, are routinely blocked by Iranian authorities, as are other websites considered un-Islamic or detrimental to the regime. The policy is contentious and the move to filter WhatsApp has caused a rupture between Rouhani's administration and a 13-member committee responsible for Internet censorship. The reformist Sharq daily reported that Rouhani has ordered the WhatsApp ban, proposed shortly after Facebook bought the messaging service for $19 billion in February, be stopped. "The issue of banning WhatsApp was raised. The president has ordered a halt on (banning) the site," Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi was quoted as saying by Sharq.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/iran-president-vetoes-wh atsapp-ban-054349146.html#OqcFifZ [yahoo.com]

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