Wordpress: Why Turkey is not ready for EU
August 24th, 2007 by Administrator Barnhard BlogWe know it’s already happened in China, the government banned surfers from getting to wordpress.com (along with many other sites), and now, according to Doctus a judge in Turkey has decided that wordpress.com should be blocked there too. Source: cornell.wordpress.com
I’ve always seen Turkey as part of Europe and considering the role of Turkey in European history I’m convinced that they will join some day. But please after a decade or two.
Every month there seems to be some disturbing news. This week it was the news flash that Turkey is blocking Wordpress.com. Why? Well because of just a few weblogs under the domain were a bit to critical towards Adnan Oktar, a fervent advocate of creationism and that was considered as slander.
First it seemed just a mistake that they blocked Wordpress.org and not the sub-domains, which would of course also be incorrect as can be. Sadly later it turned out that Turkey is really blocking Wordpress.com. Well Turkey that’s places you next to a giant un-democratic socialist state in the east! In short you master the craft of censorship well old friend: No seats for you in the EU parliament!
Full story here:
Why We’re Blocked in Turkey: Adnan Oktar, Turkey Bans Wordpress.com and Turkse rechter blokkeert weblogs (dutch)
Update: Story Update.
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