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naner
Asked by an Iranian member of the audience if Google will stop blocking Android or Chrome downloads in his country, Schmidt said that the ban was due to US sanctions on Iran and that "we can't violate US law."

Is this due to crypto within the software or what?

[dead] urdnot
One of the products I used to work on at one of my old companies supported a huge number of languages. We were really scraping the bottom of the barrel for new languages to add - every new one was even more obscure than the last. But we never supported Farsi - IIRC, it was because simply developing a product explicitly intended for consumption by an embargoed country is considered illegal.
cube13
That has to be the reason, because any software(libraries or executables) that contains SSL encryption code is covered as a weapon under export rules.
lotu
That stopped being the case years ago.
toddnessa
It is for the most part an unfortunate fact that regulators are a stifler of innovation. What has their recent push for SOPA just taught us? If they want to regulate it to truly protect people that is one thing. For example, children need to be protected from predators who would exploit them on the Internet. However,when regulators attempt to regulate out of greed (because their pockets are being laced by Hollywood or some other interest group) they ruin things for everybody.
vacri
Regulations kill innovation, yes? Software patents are regulations... let's start there.
worldimperator
I can live pretty well without innovations in privacy intrusion systems. ;-) But I'm looking forward to their innovations in deleting or hiding interconnected data. That's still a huge problem, I'm wondering what they 'innovated' to delete my G+ account while not becoming totally inconsistent on related pages of people following me etc. (I intentionally deleted it yesterday)
lotu
I can assure you Google and any sane Internet company never truly deletes anything, such that it is unrecoverable. They just mark it as deleted so that, it doesn't get served up but nothing is invalidated.