Ahmadinejad’s government of Iran has launched a social network website whereby government approved contents only can be allowed to be uploaded unto the website, this has been said to be Iran’s version of YouTube but it is mainly to promote culture and values of Iran.
It will be recalled that the widely known YouTube was blocked by President Ahmadinejad along with other social media networks like Facebook and Twitter have also been blocked.
This move we hear is to block any kind of western influence on the people of Iran in everyway, to curb future uprising against the Ahmadinejad government.
Ahmadinejad decided on the blockage of YouTube when his election was contested after he was declared winner and was followed by a wave of protest which ended up forcing the state to take tough actions against dissidents.
The government has in its pipeline an internet provision outfit which it would be launching to take care of citizens’ connection to the wider web which allows them access to some Western media outlets, Blogs, pornography and social networks like Facebook and Twitter which are already banned in the country.
The move has been widely criticised by the western world as trying to minimise the freedom of the citizens of Iran in web access. http://ir.mehr.ir
