Google was filtered yesterday for 12 hours, But Why? The actual answer is: WE don't know. I've tried to read everything about it and find out the anwer. Some officials told the interviweres taht "This blocking is intentional and is ordered from official authorities" but then rejected it and at the last, an official letter mentioned: "In some parts of the country, people did not had access to the google for some hours. This problem is fixed and everybody has access to this search engine".

But why did this happened? We can have different theories:

• 1. This was a technical failur. Our Internet blocking system has started using a "intelligent" robot (as they claim and interpret Intelegence!) which filters weblogs and websites with too many links to filtered sites and weblogs. With no doubt google has lots of links to the filtered sites (as it has links to all the internet) so our intelligent robot have filtered it.



• 2. This was done intendedly but after lots of pressure and complains, they rolled it back. This can be justified by the notation of "National Internet Project" which is going to be a big LAN (WAN?) inside the country, which provide hosting/access to legal sites.



• 3.This was a test to messure the reactions in case of a BIG crackdown on the Net. If this is the case, we showed them our concern (even people were talking about protesting google's censorship in the streets!)



• the last idea? 4. It was a silly deciesion of an individual and he applied it without consulting others of even informing them. After this happened, even authorities objected to it and nobody accepted the burden. This might seems strange to you but for me it is an acceptable idea :)

If I had to vote for one, I would vote to 1: Inteleggint robot's failure.