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 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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#TurkeyCensorGoogle- If AKP gains any prestige from the Gaza flotilla incident, all is lost fast by the Google incident in the domestic front…

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