Access to social networks, are routinely blocked by Iranian authorities
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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 on 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 Wha-tsApp has caused a rupture between Mr Rouhani’s administration and a 13-member committee responsible for Internet censorship.
The reformist Sharq daily reported that Mr Rouhani has ordered the WhatsApp ban, proposed shortly after Facebook bought the messaging service for $19 billion in February, be stopped.
( Source : AFP )
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