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Blogger.com Banned In Turkey

Posted by timothy on from the no-longer-young-turks dept.

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].'"

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  1. Re:Reality knocks by isorox · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you have followed events in Turkey this does not come as a surprise. Let's hope they will never be allowed to join the EU.

    It's laughable that it would even be considered.

  2. President Hussein's agenda by Porchroof · · Score: 0, Troll

    We'll be seeing the same thing happening in the United States after Barry Hussein O'bama is elected President

    Hussein has already banned interviews with a TV station in Florida because the station's reporter had the gall to ask Joe "The Senator" Biden some tough questions.

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    Fata viam invenient.
  3. Americans criticizing Turkey on human rights? by Anik315 · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's a laugh. America has one of the worst human rights records of any country.