After blogging Wordpress and YouTube and Slide (more about those here), Turkey, according to the RSF, has now blocked the Paris-based video sharing site Dailymotion, beginning on August 2nd. The rationale behind the block is uncertain, though if YouTube is any guide, it’s probably due to a video “insulting” the founder of the modern Turkish state, Kemal Ataturk.

Turkey blocks sites like these wholesale, even if the offender is one single video, then requires their owners to jump through a preposterous number of hoops to get them unblocked. YouTube insists it’s complied and has still not been unblocked.

Additionally, two Turkish free speech sites, Antenna-tr and Ortakpayda, were hacked on July 24th by an ultranationalist group.