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Great Firewall of Turkey: access your WordPress blog with WordPrexy
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05:29
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As a reaction to the court's decision to block access to the entire WordPress.com blogging platform in Turkey, following a libel action brought by the Islamic-creationist, Adnan Oktar, Great Firewall of Turkey activists launched WordPrexy.com project to make Turkish blogs hosted on WordPress.com accessible. WordPrexy is a WordPress-specific proxy server ...
Turkey Blocks YouTube. Again.
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15:38
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For the second time in a year, a Turkish court ordered, on Tuesday September 18, to block access to YouTube.com over videos deemed insulting to the country's leaders.
The decision followed a complaint by a resident in the eastern city of Sivas that the site hosted videos containing insults against Turkey's ...
Thailand: Wordpress.com blocked
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00:42
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Thailand blockpage (TOT - Telephone Organization of Thailand): This screen shot was taken by Prachatai.com when access to the popular blogging platform WordPress.com has been blocked (August, 22th, 2007):
“Sorry. TOT Plc., as an organization of Thai people, has restrained the access to this website as it contains content, text, and/or ...
Turkey: wordpress.com ban inspires firestorm of criticism
Turkey blockpage (screen shot of the blocked WordPress.com) “Access to this site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/195 of T.C. Fatih 2.Civil Court of First Instance.”(Source: National Blockpages Gallery | Global Voices Advocacy Blog)
Matthew Mullenweg, founding developer of the popular WordPress blogging platform, has received a letter ...
Turkey blocks popular blogging platform WordPress.com
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01:39
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The popular, and free, blogging platform WordPress.com has been blocked in Turkey and those who are trying to visit it are seeing this message: “Access to this site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/195 of T.C. Fatih 2.Civil Court of First Instance.”
“I didn’t realize Turkey had ...
Blogging for Kurds' human rights
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Young bloggers from across the Middle East have joined forces to fight for the human rights of their Kurdish brethren: "Our first target is the media which is necessary for Kurds to voice their opinion, thus we are petitioning to unblock these voices, at least on the internet, our only ...
March of the censors: France, Turkey and China clamp down on freedom of speech
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Two weeks ago, the French blog AgoraVox, one of the leading European citizen media blogs, warned against what it termed the gradual "berlusconisation" of the French media and the threat posed by the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy, French Minister of the Interior and conservative party head, to freedom of speech ...
