Given reports that Iran is potentially handing out death sentences to bloggers whose content the Iranian gov’t dislikes, you would think that a secure and private means of communication is important for many people in that country. And apparently the Iranian government realizes this and doesn’t like it. So it’s decided to try to pull the plug on Gmail, and instead roll out a “national email service.” Of course, that just means an email service that the government has full access to, which I’m sure doesn’t fool anyone. However, it does make you wonder if Iran thinks it can possibly block all other types of email beyond just Gmail (and I’m sure plenty of folks in Iran can quickly figure out how to get around the blocks).
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