Blogger.com Banned In Turkey

petermp writes "A Turkish court has blocked access to the popular blog hosting service Blogger (Blogger.com and Blogspot.com, owned by Google), since Friday, October 24th, 2008. According to BasBasBas.com, a Dutch blogger based in Istanbul, who alerted readers about the issue: 'It is suspected that the reason for this has something to do with Adnan Oktar, by some considered the leading Muslim advocate for creationism, who has in the past managed to get Wordpress, Google Groups, as well as Richard Dawkins' website [banned].'"

Comments

heh they should jam all the religious nuts

[ionix5891]

on this bus

fracking religion what good has it ever done

sigh

Re:1 simple PGP script...

[ClassMyAss]

Wow. That was almost completely unintelligible, and I can't even exactly figure out who you were trying to offend. But props on at least getting across the point that you were trying to offend someone - that's a good first step!

Re:Turkey?

[Yocto Yotta]

I think you're mistaken, the Armenian genocides are a figment of your imagination, silly.

Good for Turkey.

[BitZtream]

Everyone is screaming censorship, but thats not it. They are saving themselves and the rest of the world. By Turkey not having access to blogger, all those people will no longer be made dumber by reading someones retarded online diary. The rest of the world will no longer have to be subjected to stupid blogs from Turkey.

No one has blocked the 3 blogs on the Internet that are actually useful, the other 4 billion useless online diaries will not be noticed when they disappear by anyone other than the emo that posts to them, and possibly a other emo's that cry with them after school.

We really do need to stop trying to shoehorn the censorship issue onto anything that we don't agree with. I can see how you might think this is censorship, but its not.

Nothing of value was lost in this ban, move on.