Google is the latest victim of Iran’s aggressive crackdown against morally offensive content. AFP reports Google search engine, Google Mail, and other foreign sites are now blocked in this country.

Iran has been losing its battle against degradation of morality allegedly caused by the proliferation of Websites filled with “sexual and politically critical” materials.

“I can confirm these sites have been filtered,” said Hamid Shahriari, the secretary of Iran’s National Council of Information.

While I laud the effort of Iran to uphold high moral standards among their citizens, I don’t think total ban is the right approach. Maybe they should adopt the Virtual Cops strategy currently employed by fellow Asian country, China.

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