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Turkey Censors YouTube

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tastes-like-chicken dept.

FM Reader writes "After a controversial mock-up video reportedly submitted by a Greek member about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, Turkish courts ordered the national ISPs to ban the online video service, YouTube. YouTube hostnames are currently redirected at the DNS level to a page that announces the court order."

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  1. Re:Very American of them too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Which government agency in the USA has the means to do that?
    With Bush at the wheel, any agency. And if no agency has the means, he'll create a new agency just for that.

    In Soviet USA, government crushes YOU!
  2. Re:This is very European of them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Illegalizing denial of the holocaust is different issue than denying access to lonelygirl15s videoblog."

    The trouble is that almost certainly the 'holocaust' didn't happen in anything like the way the official histories say it did. But "Illegalizing denial" means that no study or re-examination is allowed.

    The important thing for me is that my mind is free to consider any option, and instituting thought crime binds peoples minds.

  3. Re:Headache for EU negotiators by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I thought it was hilarious. Maybe you should get out more and take your head out of your butt?