Yahoo Account Policy Hurts Iranians' Free Speech, Activists Say

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Yahoo Account Policy Hurts Iranians' Free Speech, Activists Say
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Internet users in Iran haven't been able to register for new Yahoo (http://mashable.com/category/yahoo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) accounts since September 2013, when the company started requiring phone numbers in the registration process as a security measure. On Wednesday, two pro-Iranian organizations urged Yahoo to change the policy to help protect Iranian's free speech rights.

When Yahoo started requiring mobile phone numbers from new users, Iran (http://mashable.com/category/iran/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), as well as a ****** of other countries like Syria, Cuba, Libya, and Myanmar, was **t included in the drop-down menu (https://edit.yahoo.com/registration?.src=fpctx&.intl=us&.done=https://www.yahoo.com/&fsredirect=1&fs=rMQbK0qHafBDUC_R4b4kQwo29ixJajldsqkcbJaFGfeUK5w 0yiD7KiS8M0.1FlBZZyYwoWy) for country codes. That effectively means people with phone numbers in those countries can't successfully sign up for an account Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/01/yahoo-iran-email/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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