April 14 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government approved the export to Iran of software designed to help citizens avoid government censorship of their Internet use, according to the program’s developer, the Censorship Research Center.
The “Haystack” software lets Internet users hide their identities and use Web sites -- such as Google Inc.’s YouTube, Facebook Inc., and Twitter Inc. -- that are blocked by the government, the San Francisco-based non-profit group said in a statement on its Web site.
“We hope to keep the Internet open,” the center’s executive director, Austin Heap, said in a telephone interview. “We can start very seriously to support the people within Iran, and those who keep the dialogue going -- the bloggers, the citizen journalists.”
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