Perhaps Turkey should first let Wordpress back into Turkey.
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lunchstealer|8.20.07 @ 2:28PM|#
Ack! Stupid nanny filter. Can't read the boingboing article. Anybody care to post an outline?
sv|8.20.07 @ 2:34PM|#
Monday, August 20, 2007
Turkey blocks Wordpress blogs (before, it was YouTube)
BoingBoing reader Melissa Maples says,
Xeni, we seem to have lost access to any and all Wordpress-hosted blogs here in Turkey.
Anytime I try to go to anything.wordpress.com or wordpress.com/anything, I get this message: "Access to this site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/195 of T.C. Fatih 2.Civil Court of First Instance."
I have no idea what that court decision is about.
I'm a regular contributor to several Wordpress-hosted sites, so lost access is an issue. Obviously I have an easy workaround, but my guess is that most casual surfers in Turkey don't really know much about how to use proxies.
If anything, this seems even more disruptive than the YouTube block earlier this year, because it affects our access thousands of blogs worldwide, as well as the Wordpress site itself.
Dale Peebles says,
PZ Myers reports with links of a Turkish creationist that was offended by some blogs. He applied to a Turkish court and got all WordPress blogs blocked. A workaround is already available. Link.
Previous posts about internet censorship in Turkey: Link.
posted by Xeni Jardin at 08:13:27 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments
sv|8.20.07 @ 2:34PM|#
above is the boingboing link cut-pasted
|8.20.07 @ 3:01PM|#
I'm offended by this one guy in Turkey. What do I do to get all of turkey blocked on the internet?
supreme reasoner|8.20.07 @ 3:19PM|#
The EU doesn't exist. It's something invented by conspiracists and Lou Dobbs.
Minion of URKOBOLD|8.20.07 @ 3:27PM|#
"SUPREME REASONER" IS ACTUALLY THE CHIEF FRY COOK AT THE THE FUN-IN-THE-SUN BURGER FRANCHISE, HULKA BURGER.
lunchstealer|8.20.07 @ 3:39PM|#
Which doesn't serve cheeseburgers or baconburgers.
Minion of URKOBOLD|8.20.07 @ 4:03PM|#
*STEALS LUNCH FROM LUNCHSTEALER.
**REPLACES IT WITH BRINNER.
lunchstealer|8.20.07 @ 4:31PM|#
Hmm. This coffee tastes like Folgers Crystals. It probably wouldn't be such a dead giveaway if they had put some hot water in there or something.
For those in Turky (or going t|8.20.07 @ 4:51PM|#
Here is a link to info on how to put a proxy on a flash drive. Don't leave home without one.
http://www.rfa.org/english/support/webaccess_flashdrive/index.html
|8.20.07 @ 5:05PM|#
Hmm...Turkey
For those in Turkey|8.20.07 @ 5:07PM|#
Sorry for the misspellingk of mi name