shadowless's Journal: Iranian Government Filters Google.com

As of yesterday evening, all subdomains of "google.com" are filtered out and user access to them are blocked by some (possibly all) major ISPs in Iran. The couple of ISPs I tried to reach had no comment on the situation, and there's no government office that an end-user can turn to and complain in these cases.
The "filtering" process in Iran is quite opaque and the details are unknown to many. What we know is that a three-member committee decides the "black list" and it's mandatory that the ISPs implement the filtering. The criteria on which basis the filtering occurs is undocumented and widely believed to be subjective to a large extent.
Obviously, this is not the first time such blunders are made, as in various periods over the past few years other high visitor websites (not to mention essential to everyday life) like Yahoo! webmail and the English Wikipedia were blocked. Those sites were unfiltered in a matter of days because of public outcry; let's see how long this one lasts.

UPDATE: It lasted less than 12 hours. The "google.com"'s reachability is restored as of 10:30 AM IRST.