Fri 24 Aug 2007
The popular blogging platform, Wordpress (which all of my blogs are based on) has been banned in Turkey. An estimated 1 million blogs have been shut down on a court order last week.
On August 17th, 2007, the Turkish Fatih Second Civil Court of First Instance blocked access to all wordpress.com blogs in response to a suit filed by Adnan Oktar??s lawyers on the grounds that blogs hosted on the platform published allegedly defamatory and ??unlawful?? statements about their client.
Blocking/censoring Wordpress because of content on a blog is like outlawing Honda after someone is arrested for drink driving. Almost as ridiculous as when the Turkish government banned YouTube in response to a video they didn’t like.
More information and discussion here. How to hack around the block, here.
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