Radio Free Europe
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"It would look like a regular Internet in every way except you wouldn't be able to reach any website outside of Iran," he says. "You hypothetically wouldn't be able to e-mail anyone outside of Iran. You wouldn't be able to make Skype phone calls, etcetera. Anything that would touch an outside service would be broken."
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"When we search our desired information on the World Wide Web, we leave a trace of our personal information," . .
"The source of our computer information should not be outside the country," . .
. . warned against the use of foreign search engines such as Google, describing them as a tool for spying.
. . director of the Telecommunication Ministry's research institute, was quoted in 2011 as saying that 60 percent of Iranian homes and businesses would be incorporated into the domestic network.
. . the new system will eliminate the need to rely on an international bandwidth for domestic connections, which would reduce bandwidth expenses by up to 30 percent.
. . Iran could quickly move into something like a dual Internet framework: a fast and cheap national network that would provide easy access to domestic sites but make connections to the World Wide Web very slow, heavily filtered, and expensive.
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down the road, all nations will have their own "National Internet" with a firewall to the universal system
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