Iran Wants to Block Instagram, Again

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Iran Wants to Block Instagram, Again
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An Iranian court ordered Iran's Ministry of Telecommunications to block*Instagram (http://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) due to privacy concerns on Friday, according to the "semiofficial (http://abcnews.go.com/Tech**logy/wireStory/report-iran-court-orders-instagram-blocked-23838255)" Iranian news agency Mehr (http://www.mehrnews.com/detail/News/2296430).

The order stemmed from a private lawsuit, but Iranian netizens reportedly still had access to the photo-sharing app at the time of publication. The Iranian government blocked (http://mashable.com/2013/12/29/iran-blocks-unblocks-instagram/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) Instagram for 12 hours on Dec. 29, 2013, and Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Twitter*and YouTube are also officially inaccessible throughout the nation. This latest censorship comes just a week after the government in Pakistan blocked access (http://mashable.com/2014/05/16/iran-google-wikipedia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) to the hosting platform Google Sites and several Wikipedia pages. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/23/instagram-iran-court-block/?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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