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Milli Motor/ Milli Tüp
Young Civilians launched two sites to make fun the web censorship. Milli Motor (National Search Engine) is an imitation of Google Search Engine but all searches end up linking to... Read more
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Hackers warn Turkish censorship authorities
While businesses are now exposed to economic losses due to the new wave of web censorship, it looks like a small does of revanche was on stage last night. First... Read more
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Turkey steps up the fight against Google
In yet another shameful day in Turkish web history, an Ankara prosecutor got the order to ban 44 more IP numbers Google use for YouTube. News source... Read more
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19 July: A major meeting against web censorship
Press release here. Location: Kadir Has Üniversitesi Cibali Kampüsü Date: 19 Haziran 2010 Cumartesi Time: 13:00 – 17:00 An FF discussion here. Turkish Green Party’s anti-web censorship statement here. Internet... Read more
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the Minister uses nationalist rhetoric to justify web censorship
Binalı Yıldırım may be right in wanting Google to be a taxpayer like in many other countries. But is this the way to demand? Latest censorship wave had some substantive... Read more
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Cyb-Roundup: Google’s new search index, COPPA,
http://www.behance.net/samael found in never trust a hippy ************** Our new search index: Caffeine from Google Webmaster Central Blog by Michael Wyszomierski (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) Today, we’re announcing... Read more
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Journalism roundup: Robert Fisk’s advice to journalists etc
Robert Fisk Offers Advice for War Reporters from Editors Weblog – all postings by Carole Wurzelbacher Robert Fisk, a Middleastern correspondent for The Independent, recently gave a speech at the... Read more
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Turkish crusade against Google (#TurkeyCensorGoogle)
Turkey continues to embarrass herself. update: The latest ban comes through Atatürk Thought Association‘s appeal: It appealed the court because of a Google Site that insulted Atatürk. The Court decided... Read more
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Turkish judiciary wages war against Google and What to do?
There have been more than 50 ongoing trials against YouTube and it seems that Turkish authorities stepped up war against Google. Google’s Public DNS numbers are banned now. That means... Read more
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Damn! It looks like ban on Youtube and Google Docs (and probably others) taken to a higher level…
For two days now we cannot access Youtube. Open DNS and Google Public DNS do not seem to work.. We are looking for new ways to bypass the censorship… p.s.... Read more
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Cyberculture roundup: Youth and their online reputation; Privacy issues; Transparency etc..
Pew Research confirms that youth care about their reputation from apophenia by zephoria In today’s discussions about privacy, “youth don’t care about privacy” is an irritating but popular myth. Embedded... Read more
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Elif’s weekly roundup: Internet freedom party etc.
Get the ‘Freedom to Internet Party’ started! One of the Istanbul- Taksim’s most popular night club which often hosts interesting events and concerts has organized a special night called ‘Freedom... Read more
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WordPress founder in Turkey, a slide on Facebook Turkey stats and more..
Matt Mullenweg lecturing on 29 May. Contact info. Facebook Turkey stats here. ***************************** The Partisan Internet and the Wider World from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan Is the internet... Read more
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Turks at Twitter: #Recep Bey, @notredamedesion @ahmethc @cbabdullahgul- Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (9)
New CHP leader’s addressing of PM Erdoğan as “Recep Bey” became a Twitter phenomena a few days ago (The Istanbulian: What Is Recep Bey?) AKP members responded by setting up... Read more
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Cyberculture roundup: “Traditional media’s adoption of social media”; What to do with Facebook privacy and more…
Traditional media’s adoption of social media from kottke.org by Aaron Cohen Think about the following platforms and when the first traditional media activity/participation occurred in that platform’s history: Friendster, MySpace,... Read more
