MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA -- Press TV -- the Iranian government-funded TV news outlet -- has been “shut down” on Google’s platforms, including YouTube and Gmail. The move coincides with similar action taken against HispanTV, an Iranian Spanish-language channel. With increasing repression of Iran’s official vehicles of communication to the world,
With US on the Warpath, Iran’s Press TV the Latest Target for Google’s Political Censorship
Iran finds itself in the crosshairs of social-media censorship, along with a number of other countries that are, incidentally or not, in the crosshairs of the U.S. State Department.