Iran Wants to Block Instagram, Again

An Iranian court ordered Iran's Ministry of Telecommunications to block Instagram due to privacy concerns on Friday, according to the "semiofficial" Iranian news agency Mehr.

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 Instagram for 12 hours on Dec. 29, 2013, and Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are also officially inaccessible throughout the nation. This latest censorship comes just a week after the government in Pakistan blocked access to the hosting platform Google Sites and several Wikipedia pages. Read more...