[liberationtech] Coursera to join censor club by blocking Iran IP space

[wasa bee]

Iranian users are very aware of proxies to access internet due to internal
censorship.
They will just use them to access coursera :); I doubt it will have much
impact on users.



On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:03 AM, <andreas.bader at nachtpult.de> wrote:

> Coursera says its not them, its an US export regulation. And this is
> related to all sanctioned countries, including Syria, Sudan and Cuba, not
> only Iran. I don't think that Coursera decided to do this by itself.
> Stanford University also offers Coursera courses btw.
>
> Andreas
>
> Source:
>
> http://blog.coursera.org/post/74891215298/update-on-course-accessibility-for-students-in-cuba
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