Committee to Protect Bloggers » Dailymotion http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org Free speech for bloggers worldwide Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Turkey Blocks Dailymotion http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/08/04/turkey-blocks-dailymotion/ http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/08/04/turkey-blocks-dailymotion/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:09:11 +0000 Curt http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/08/04/turkey-blocks-dailymotion/ 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.

]]> http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/08/04/turkey-blocks-dailymotion/feed/ Dailymotion Joins List of Banned Video Sharing Sites, Again (and Again) http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2007/09/03/dailymotion-joins-list-of-banned-video-sharing-sites-again-and-again/ http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2007/09/03/dailymotion-joins-list-of-banned-video-sharing-sites-again-and-again/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:52:33 +0000 Curt http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2007/09/03/dailymotion-joins-list-of-banned-video-sharing-sites-again-and-again/ France-based video sharing site, which was blocked in Tunisia in April, then was available, is apparently blocked again, according to GVA. It is possible that this block is not directed specifically against the company by the Tunisian authorities, but is a result of the imprecision of SmartFilter, the filtering software produced by the U.S. company Secure Computing, which may have categorized the site as pornography.

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