If e-mail is one of the primary ways for you to communicate with your coworkers, friends and family then you might have heard of Google's Gmail.
Reckoning on what country you reside inside, there's a great amount of Internet censorship coming within the Middle East. Though it has looked to get alot less serious in many countries in the last couple of years, you may find a number of places, like Facebook, Google Video, or particular political sites and chatrooms, that are blocked for a large part of the cities.
According to Wikipedia, phishing is the crime of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trusted entity in an online communication. Phishing is a nice word. It sounds like fishing.