Turkey Blocks YouTube Again
By Curt on Sep 18, 2007 in Google, YouTube, Censorship, Turkey
Turkey’s blocked the Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube again, according to Agence France Presse (via MEY).
The decision followed a complaint by a resident in the eastern city of Sivas that the site hosted videos containing insults against Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the army, the Anatolia news agency reported…In March, the country’s largest telecommunications provider, Turk Telekom, blocked access to YouTube on a court order following a clip that allegedly insulted Ataturk.
As MEY notes, YouTube’s earlier ban was lifted after it agreed to assist in Turkish censorship efforts. YouTube denies this. (I know, I’m as shocked as you.) But considering their behavior in Thailand, where they did this very thing, the amoral company’s shill doth protest too much, methinks.
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