A Turkish court banned access to Slide, the maker of social networking widgets, for “harboring pictures and articles that are considered to be insulting to Ataturk.”
In a note to Slide users in Turkey, Slide announced that it has contacted the Turkish government in hopes of resolving the issue:
If you use Slide in Turkey, you’ve probably noticed that you are no longer able to access the Slide website or our applications (you may not even be able to access this post). The Turkish government has accused Slide of “harboring pictures and articles that are considered to be insulting to Ataturk,” founder of the republic.
We have contacted the government of Turkey in an effort to resolve this situation and will keep you updated on any changes. In the meantime, we’re trying our best to enable Turkish citizens to access our website and applications again.
According to Slide statistics, Slide widgets are being viewed by more than 143 million unique viewers every month in more than 200 countries on websites like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Orkut, and Blogger.
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posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm - #9018Why don’t they just use a “Report as inappropriate” function to settle things like that ??
posted on April 7th, 2008 at 2:12 pm - #9092