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Iran blocks access to Signal messaging app after it becomes popular January 28, 2021 Iran has blocked access to Signal, the messaging app that has picked up tens of millions of new users around the world in the wake of controversial updates to WhatsApp’s terms and conditions. Word of the blocking surfaced on January 25, when the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) tweeted that access to the app was being blocked in Iran. Peivast reported that the Iranian government’s Working Group for Determining Instances of Criminal Content ordered the ban on January 15, after which the app ...

Signal vows to fight blockage in Iran amid newfound popularity Share Jan 26, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP The Iranian government appears to have blocked Signal usage in recent days amid a newfound surge in popularity. The government effort to restrict access to Signal’s encrypted messaging application comes in the wake of WhatsApp’s decision to announce an update to its privacy policy for business customers that would share their data with Facebook, WhatsApp’s parent company. The move was reportedly off-putting to so many users in Iran it appears to have pushed them to Signal,...

Iran Reportedly Orders Operators To Block Signal Messaging App January 25, 2021 15:36 GMT share The Iranian monthly Peivast is reporting that Iran has blocked the private encrypted messaging application Signal, ordering mobile operators to filter it from their networks. The report comes after the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) said on Twitter earlier on January 25 that "Iran seems to have started blocking" the application. The move follows the January 14 removal of Signal from local application stores after it was reportedly deemed " criminal content" by the Islamic republi...

Last September, Cuba's minister of communications Jorge Luis Perdomo gave an interview on internet access to the Russian state channel Russia Today. Asked if there were any politically-motivated reasons behind restrictions on internet access in Cuba, Perdomo smiled and replied that “there have never been any political motivations to block access to information to the Cuban population”. He added that “restrictions to Internet access in Cuba are due, only and exclusively, to the economic limitations we have faced”. Indeed, high-ranking Cuban officials usually justify internet access res...