Links to blog in email made sender liable, says US court: “ Defamatory content ‘published’ A US bankruptcy court has said that a man committed defamation just by forwarding an email with links in it…
Internet Freedom under pressure in Denmark: “ On 27 May the Danish Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision which obliges internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites that may contain – or…
DoS attack stuffs Turkey’s internet censors • The Register Hackers protest net interference By Jane Fae Ozimek, 18th June 2010 15:12 GMT Access to the internet in Turkey is becoming increasingly ragged, as growing state…
Messaging at work: Supreme Court rules in favor of employer who read worker’s messages – latimes.com Supreme Court rules in favor of California police chief who read employee’s texts The justices say the Ontario employer’s…
Since early morning of 18.06.2010 (01:00hrs approximately) the websites of the Ministry of Transportation (http://www.ubak.gov.tr/), Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) (http://www.tk.gov.tr/), and the Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB) (http://www.tib.gov.tr/) has been unaccessible. The three state…
Free speech: Turkey versus Google | Index on Censorship 16 Jun 2010 Turkey’s Internet censorship hit the news this week when the country’s own president raised his objections to the policy on Twitter. Yaman Akdeniz…
Turks infuriated over ban on Google sites (SETimes.com) Turkish activists have initiated a legal challenge against the government’s controversial move to block Google services. By A Simsek for Southeast European Times — 15/06/10 Professor Yaman…
Bianet: Media Freedom Activists Bring Lawsuit against Google Ban Akdeniz from Bilgi University and Altıparmak from Ankara University will appeal to the ban of certain Google services imposed by the Telecommunication Communication Presidency. bianet.org publication…
Reporters Sans Frontières – Blockage of YouTube spreads to Google services Published on 7 June 2010 Reporters Without Borders condemns the growing repercussions of Turkey’s censorship of YouTube, the video-sharing service owned by Google. Turkish…
Statement by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor, Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University, and Director of Cyber-Rights.Org. (lawya@cyber-rights.org) The situation in terms of Internet censorship has moved from BAD to…