Google chrome blocked in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan
People from Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan have reported that they are not having the permission to use Google chrome browser, not sure about the reason for that too.
If at all they could download the browser, they can not use it as IP is located and checked for the place of usage. Its something one would not expect from Google. Worldwide free software is not allowed for usage in some places.
Last year, Google Earth was blocked in Sudan and Google had presented the same reason for the block. Syrian government had blocked some websites like Skype, Facebook in the past, but they have no relation to this block. This intense act by Google is rather confusing for the entire web.
Why are only these countries targeted? As earlier once we heard that Yahoo and Microsoft had removed Iran from the dropdown list of countries for which people can register an email address.
Google says just this as the answer -
“In accordance with US export controls and economic sanctions regulations, we are unable to permit the download of Google Chrome in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan.”
The most interesting part of this, is that Google is still serving ads and advertising Google chrome download in these countries too, when its actually blocked there. One reason anyone can get is about some levels of encryption that is limited just to U.S. but when its internationally available, there should be some hard meaning for that.
[...] Google chrome blocked in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and SudanPeople from Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan have reported that they are not having the permission to use Google chrome browser, not sure about the reason for that too. If at all they could download the browser, … [...]
Reply to this comment:maybe for the counties againt america
Reply to this comment:recently nkorea has been removed from us terror’s list….infact contries like iran rely completely on opensource soft….email and websoft is the least thing
Reply to this comment:and maybe google forget that north korea is not in the list anymore
Reply to this comment:I hesitate to use even upgraded versions of Chrome, since my last experience using it (first version) left my computer compromised; have they fixed the security issues beyond all doubt?
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