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

[Amin Sabeti]

Hi,

When the Internet connection is very very slow, then how can you expect
Iranian users use TOR or other circumvention tools to watch videos on
Coursera?​​


BTW, I think the US government has eliminated this kind of sanctions
against Iranian people last summer. This action from Coursera is so
ridiculous.

A



On 30 January 2014 10:19, wasa bee <wasabee18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> proxy != tor ;)
> Maybe they can also use lantern and google uProxy...
>

>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:06 AM, <andreas.bader at nachtpult.de> wrote:
>
>> The problem is the bandwith. Coursera works with video streams, that
>> means that you can't practically use e.g. TOR.
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: * wasa bee <wasabee18 at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:04:40 +0000
>> *To: *<andreas.bader at nachtpult.de>; liberationtech<
>> liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
>> *Subject: *Re: [liberationtech] Coursera to join censor club by blocking
>> Iran IP space
>>
>> 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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