Cyberculture

Hackers warn Turkish censorship authorities

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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 we thought TİB mistakenly banned itself but later it was announced: It was probably a DoS attack… FF discussions and links to related news here … Read more

Turkey steps up the fight against Google

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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 here.

19 July: A major meeting against web censorship

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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 Sansürüne Karşı Ortak Platform Toplantısı from Sansüre Sansür by miocaro 19 Haziran 2010 tarihinde, Kadir Has Üniversitesinde gerçekleştirilecek olan internet sansürü konulu toplantı pek çok … Read more

the Minister uses nationalist rhetoric to justify web censorship

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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 impact on newly emerging digital economies in Turkey (digital agencies’ statement here) and the minister relies on the most primitive rhetoric to justify his unjustifiable desire to break the netizenship of Turkey. Good for you Mr. Yıldırım…

Friendfeed discussions on minister’s rhetoric here, and here. Google officials seem to have decided Turkish netizens as they are meeting with the Minister soon.

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Making fun of the ban. Here is the “National Search Engine”: Millimotor

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Cyb-Roundup: Google’s new search index, COPPA,

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Our new search index: Caffeine

from Google Webmaster Central Blog by Michael Wyszomierski
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)
Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.

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Journalism roundup: Robert Fisk’s advice to journalists etc

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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 Al Jazeera annual forum addressing the power of words and warning other journalists against using what he calls “words of power” in war reporting. He … Read more

Turkish crusade against Google (#TurkeyCensorGoogle)

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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 to ban all Google Sites:) (Source) A list of 6400 banned site with court decision numbers can be found here. A circulating open letter to … Read more

Turkish judiciary wages war against Google and What to do?

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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 many Google products cannot be accessed: Google Analytics, YouTube, Google Documents, Feedburner, Google Sites, Google Translate. There is a rumor that access to Google itself … Read more

Damn! It looks like ban on Youtube and Google Docs (and probably others) taken to a higher level…

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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. Tor seems to be great for secure communication but not particularly good to access YouTube due its security measures. Maybe one should look into that.. … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Youth and their online reputation; Privacy issues; Transparency etc..

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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 in this rhetoric is the belief that youth are reckless risk-takers who don?t care about the consequences of their actions. This couldn?t be further from … Read more

Elif’s weekly roundup: Internet freedom party etc.

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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 to Internet? party a few nights ago. I couldn?t be there, but I find the idea really interesting because it?s a really ironic, meaningful and also enjoyable way of protesting the censorship of internet in Turkey.

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WordPress founder in Turkey, a slide on Facebook Turkey stats and more..

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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 making us more partisan? This is one of the most persistent debates in the study of cyberspace. Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, author and now Administrator … Read more

Turks at Twitter: #Recep Bey, @notredamedesion @ahmethc @cbabdullahgul- Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (9)

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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 a website called Recep Bey (http://www.recepbey.com/) and began striking back. In the mean time, Kılıçdaroğu gained quite a number of fans at Facebook (Turkish opposition … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “Traditional media’s adoption of social media”; What to do with Facebook privacy and more…

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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, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Chatroulette. It was a shorter and shorter period for each platform.* Let’s call this the adoption half-life. It’s a bastardization of … Read more

Cyber roundup: Facebook in trouble in Pakistan, Google introduces its TV etc..

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Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

from The Official Google Blog by A Googler

If there?s one entertainment device that people know and love, it?s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*. Recently, however, an increasing amount of our entertainment experience is coming from our phones and computers. One reason is that these devices have something that the TV lacks: the web. With the web, finding and accessing interesting content is fast and often as easy as a search. But the web still lacks many of the great features and the high-quality viewing experience that the TV offers.

Google TV

from Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen

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