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Article

7 Jun 2013

Author:
Daily Dot

Hewlett Packard accused of assisting Iran with censored "halal Internet"

A French investigative publication has uncovered what they believe is evidence that Hewlett Packard (HP), the $47 billion American IT company, is collaborating with Telecommunications Infrastructure Co. (TCI), Iran’s state-owned ISP, to help limit the kind of information that country’s citizens can access online...According to Reflets.info, Iran appears to use a combination of HP and ZTE equipment to effect this censorship. ZTE is a Chinese telecommunications equipment and systems company...[article includes statement by HP - see also further statement by HP below. We also invited ZTE to respond to the article but it did not]