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Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail
makne writes "H. Ertas, a Turkish editor of the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) has been sentenced to 10 months in prison after being found guilty of editing a category about the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). Ertas's lawyer, Suna Coskun, explained that his client had worked as a voluntary editor at the Open Directory Project during his studies at the Euphrat-University and had been responsible for the Kurdish category. At the same time he became interested in Kurds and undertook his own research into the subject. As a voluntary editor, he had sorted the directory submissions but could not be responsible for their content. Therefore there could be no penalty under international law, according to Coskun. His activities could in no way be understood as 'support for a terrorist organisation' and thus Ertas' release was appropriate. The court sentenced Ertas to 10 months in prison and a fine of 416 million Turkish lire ($293). The sentence is not eligible for probation." (Read on for more.)
By email, makne writes "I don't know the editor personally, but the editor was first arrested two years ago, then released on parole until now. Members of the editor community
have tried to help him in any way they can, with no apparent success. The editor resigned from the ODP in 2002."
Makne also provided this link to a summary (from the Kurdish point of view) of earlier attempts to stifle Kurdish sites, including a campaign to have DMOZ's then-parent company Netscape remove the Kurdish category from DMOZ.
I'm joshing, of course. What with Ashcroft retired and all...
I'm not really a web designer, I just play one on the Internet.
Someone once told me that who ever wins the war gets to write its history.
Why 9/11 happened, or at least a really good excuse for some fanatics to use - three targets.. World Trade Center (wasn't the first attempt), Pentagon and White House.... Politically controlled, military backed, wrongful world stock market manipulation.
transcripts worth reading...
If you ever wondered where the dot com money came from... easy come easy go... but very bad reprecussions..
Ted Turner (CNN) once made a comment regarding 9/11.. something to the nature of calling it and act of desperation... then a few days later retracted that. (Who was using Antrax to threaten the new media? Answer is in where it came from -- a US based US military base..)
If I steal from you and you try to do anything about it, I can call you a terrorist? And then attack some other???
Ted Turner later made a comment that the Human race will end itself within a century. Lets see now... he is a reporter and knows all the reporter dirty tricks... but he is also a business man who has many such reporters and researchers working for him...
Those who use terrorism/enemy to battle to position themselves in power, will make up such even when it doesn't exist.... I remember all teh propoganda about how bad the russian people were but now that we have the internet and I have friends there... I now know its was a lie to serve those who created the lies.
Who are the real terrorist?
Yeah, that's what they always say at the public inquiry. The truth is they would shoot anything that moves, even a three year old, because they are racist bastards blinded by hate. Americans take note: your tax dollars payed to have a 13 year old girl murdered in cold blood. The killer's maximum penalty is 3 years in prison. This is abominable and makes me ashamed to call myself an American. It will only end if we stop funding the Israeli terrorists.