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Sep. 17, 2007 at 9:33am Eastern by Barry Schwartz
Iran Blocks Google Over Filter "Error"
Philipp Lenssen reports that Iran blocked Google and Google's various services for a short time span.
Iran blocks and then unblocks Google from News.com reports that Iran had an error with their filter list, which blocked Google.com and other Google services such as Gmail.
An official from the state-run communications company said:
Due to an error, the Google site was filtered on Sunday evening but the error was corrected and now Google and its different sites like Gmail can be used.
People are now asking, what was the specific filtering error?
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Pure speculation - since it seems to have been a subdomain-wide blacklisting (*.google.com), it might have been aimed at a typosquatting porn site.