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Bianet: Adnan Oktar Gets Another Site Banned

Creationist Adnan Oktar gets the internet site nacizanebilgi.com shut down on the grounds that he was insulted. He is asking for 4000 euro as an indemnity.

Bia news center – İstanbul, 24-11-2008 (Erol ÖNDEROĞLU – hukuk@bianet.org)

Creationist Adnan Oktar, a representative of the Science Research Foundation (BAV), is asserting mental anguish damages against the internet dictionary site naçizanebilgi.com in the amount of four thousand euro on the grounds that his person was attacked.

Upon Oktar’s lawyer Melih Demir’s initiative, the Criminal Court of First Instance of Silivri had gotten temporary junction against the site on July 1, 2008.
Banning access to the site and a suit for damages

The access to the site was banned because of the interpretations made under the heading related to Oktar.

Oktar’s other lawyer Kerim Kalkan demands that ‘the site is banned for good, internet publishing similar in content should be prevented, a disclaimer should be published in two national newspapers with more than 100.000 readers, and the accused should be sentenced to an indemnity of 4000 euro.

The content of the site included claims against Oktar’s interest in sexual abuse, how he was able to get out of the lawsuits against him, and similar views.
He went against famous evolutionists Dawkins’ site, too

Istanbul’s Şişli 2nd Criminal Court of Peace banned world famous evolutionist Prof. Richard Dawkins’ internet site (richarddawkins.net) in Turkey on the grounds that Adnan Oktar’s personality was violated by this site.

The court reached the decision to ban the site on September 3. The site was accused of containing insults against Oktar’s (known as Harun Yahya too) book titled ‘Atlas of Creation’.

According to Yasemin Arpa from NTV, Oktar filed a lawsuit for the damages of mental anguish against Oxford professor biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins in the amount of 8000 YTL (about 4000 Euro). Dawkins’ book The God Delusion is a best-seller in Turkey.

Claiming he was insulted and slandered through an article criticizing the internet bannings from the legal perspective, which appeared in bianet.org, Adnan Oktar (Adnan Hodja) announced that he was planning to go to court if the said article was not taken off the site.

The article that Oktar thought insulting him was written by Yaman Akdeniz, a faculty from the Law Department of the University of Leeds, and Kerem Altıparmak, a member of the Human Right Center of the Political Science Department of Ankara University, and published by Bianet on October 20.

A complaint by Adnan Oktar (also called Harun Yahya) led to the banning of another internet site yesterday (September 24). This time, the 2nd Civil Court of First Instance of Gebze in İstanbul banned the internet site of the Union of Education and Scientific Workers (Eğitim-Sen), egitimsen.org.tr. The access to the site was banned as a reaction to the Union’s press release about Adnan Oktar’s Creation Atlas, which was sent to the schools free of charge on February 28.

Moreover, upon Oktar’s complaints, the internet site gazetevatan.com.tr for daily Vatan and turandursun.com for the murdered writer Turan Dursun were shut down as well. Turan Dursun’s site is continuing with its activities from a new site: http://www.turan-dursun.com/

OiNK BitTorrent admin faces fraud prosecution: “

Uploaders to be hauled before the beak, too

Cleveland police have charged Alan Ellis, the former administrator of the defunct BitTorrent tracker site OiNK.cd, with conspiracy to defraud the record industry.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Employee has no privacy on company computers, US court rules: “Employees do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy for material stored on computers owned by their employers, a US court has ruled.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO ANNOUNCES AGREEMENTS WITH AT&T, THE NATION’S LARGEST INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER, AND AOL TO STOP MAJOR SOURCES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY:
July 10, 2008

See also http://www.nystopchildporn.com/ the new web site launched to put pressure on all ISPs to do the same.

Cuomo Launches New Website So New Yorkers Know Which Companies have Rid their Systems of Child Porn

Cuomo Urges Consumers to Join Crusade to have Other ISP Companies across State and Nation to Purge their Servers of Child Porn

NEW YORK, NY (July 10, 2008) – Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a major development in his office’s ongoing campaign to combat online child pornography. AT&T, the nation’s largest Internet Service Provider, and AOL, the nation’s third largest, have both agreed to eliminate access to child porn Newsgroups, a major supplier of these illegal images. They will also purge their servers of child porn websites. Today’s announcement comes on the heels of similar agreements with Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable announced by Cuomo last month.

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Anna Barriball – About 60 miles of beautiful views. | Transport for London:

Anna Barriball’s minimal typographic artwork ‘About 60 miles of beautiful views.’ is the latest commission by Art on the Underground to go on display on the Tube network.

Flirty texting could land Scots in jail for 10 years: “

Go too far and you’re nicked

Scots face up to 10 years in jail for sending text messages or emails with sexual content. Scotland’s just-published Sexual Offences Bill contains stiff penalties for any sexual messages whose intent is to humiliate the recipient.…

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(Via The Register – Comms.)

YouTomb Keeps an Eye on YouTube’s Graveyard: An MIT watchdog keeps tabs on clips pulled down from the popular video site.

(Via Wired News.)

This is an article from: TorrentFreak

Danish Copyright Censorship Proposal Revealed:

Back in February TorrentFreak reported on the IFPI forcing, via the Danish courts, an ISP to block its subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay. This case was the third occasion where an industry lobby group had flexed its muscles to block a website, a similar measure was used to block allofmp3.com and mp3sparks.com. However, the legality of these actions under European law, specifically the Infosoc directive, is dubious at best.

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UK – Web users back code for bloggers: “(Guardian)
Nearly half of all internet users would support a voluntary code of conduct for bloggers and online commentators, according to research. A survey by legal firm DLA Piper said 46% of web users think bloggers should sign up to a code that reflected the laws on defamation, intellectual property and incitement, with 15% ambivalent and 4% strongly opposed.”

(Via QuickLinks Update.)

Facebook, States Set Bullying, Predator Safeguards: “Facebook agrees to deploy 40 new safeguards it says will protect users from sexual predators and cyberbullies. The move is endorsed by 49 states and Washington DC, which have been negotiating with the number-two social network on the measures for months. The holdout state? Texas — which says they do not go far enough.

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(Via Wired News.)