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Archive for October 28th, 2008

Bianet :: Turkish Bloggers Are Furious

After Youtube.com, Wordpress and Googe Groups, now a well-known blog service blogger.com has been banned in Turkey. There has been no change in internet censorship.

Bia news center – Diyarbakır, 27-10-2008
Erol ÖNDEROĞLU – hukuk@bianet.org

The 1st Criminal Court of First Instance of Diyarbakır has banned access to the well-known blog service blogger.com.

The decision came after the Digiturk TV Platform Company filed a compliant about some internet sites broadcasting scenes from soccer games over which the Digituk had the sole right.
Blogger.com was banned upon complaint by Digiturk

Thousands of internet users are being met by the statement ‘Access to this web site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2008/2761 of T.R. Diyarbakır 1st Criminal Court of Peace’.

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