Committee to Protect Bloggers

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 […]

Turkey has banned Slide, the photo widget, according to Venture Beat. It’s another one of those all-too-popular “insulting to the founder” type objections. There were (or weren’t) photos that were (or weren’t) insulting to the founder of modern Turkey (Ataturk).
Slide is speaking to the Turkish government and reaching out to Turkish users. Let’s hope they […]