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Iran Plans to Unplug Internet, Create Its Own

Tehran aims to put all citizens on internal network

By Luke Kelly-Clyne,  Newser Staff

Posted May 28, 2011 12:18 PM CDT

(Newser) – Iran is waging war on open Internet. Looking to limit the cyber-infiltration of Western ideas, Iran's telecommunications chief claimed that, in two years time, all Iranians would be forced to use a state-censored, fully-internal Internet. About 60% of the nation's homes and businesses...   Read full story »

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