Committee to Protect Bloggers » Slide http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org Free speech for bloggers worldwide Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:18:59 +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/ Turkey Finds a New Social Media App to Ban! http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/03/25/turkey-finds-a-new-social-media-app-to-ban/ http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/03/25/turkey-finds-a-new-social-media-app-to-ban/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:43:19 +0000 Curt http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2008/03/25/turkey-finds-a-new-social-media-app-to-ban/ 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 don’t join YouTube/Google and Microsoft in accommodating censorship, but find a different way.

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