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6 August 2008

Turkey: Dailymotion blocked

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Advocacy

Access to the french video-sharing website Dailymotion.com has been blocked in Turkey since August 2nd 2008. According to Erkan Saka, an Istanbul-based blogger, “the decision to ban the site came...

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29 March 2008

Slide blocked in Turkey

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Turkey

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...

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23 January 2008

Turkey again blocks access to YouTube

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Turkey

A Turkish court has again blocked access to the popular video-sharing site YouTube over a video clip allegedly insulting the country's founding father, Kemal Atatürk. According to The New Anatolian,...

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23 September 2007

Great Firewall of Turkey: access your WordPress blog with WordPrexy

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Turkey, Global

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...

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19 September 2007

Turkey Blocks YouTube. Again.

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Turkey

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...

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27 August 2007

Thailand: WordPress.com blocked

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Thailand, Turkey

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....

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21 August 2007

Turkey: wordpress.com ban inspires firestorm of criticism

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Feature

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...

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