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October 25, 2011 08:38 pm GMT
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Iranians Upset Over Google Reader Changes
Last week, Google announced an impending updateto its neglected online RSS reader, Google Reader. The service is soon getting a cosmetic overhaul and will see its current social features removed in favor of deeper integration with Google+. Although many TechCrunch commenters lamented alongside me about the forthcoming disappearance of our favorite "human curators," when I asked the same question on Google+, the outcome was decidedly different: no one really cares.Except, it appears, Iranians. According to a blog post now making its way around the Web, Google Reader served the Iranian community as a way to get uncensored, unfiltered news outside of government control. And now, that may be over.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Z2-XX-JAlOI/
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