Yahoo Reinstates Email for Iranians
Washington, DC – Beginning late last week, Yahoo made good on its May promise to reinstate the ability for Iranians to create email accounts. Yahoo is the top email provider for Iranians; however, a policy change in late 2013 that required users to provide a phone number for new accounts barred numbers from […]
NIAC Welcomes Yahoo Decision to Reverse Iranian Email Restrictions
NIAC welcomes the decision of Yahoo to reverse its long-standing policy and ensure that the people of Iran are able to create Yahoo email accounts by September 2014.
U.S. Companies Blocking Communication Tools in Iran
With Apple’s vigilante-sanctions-enforcement/racial profiling of Iranian Americans receiving well-deserved attention, we wanted to spotlight similar over-enforcement of broad sanctions by tech companies impacting people inside Iran. Below is a list of services not technically blocked by sanctions but still denied to Iranians by U.S. companies, compiled via researcher Collin Anderson who maintains and updates the […]
Left Outside the Circle: Iranians and Google+
The newly launched Google social network service called Google+ has created a major buzz online, but has also sparked many questions (and some answers). Why do we need another social network? What does it have to offer more than Twitter and Facebook? But for Iranians, there is an even bigger question: will I even be allowed […]