While Turkish authorities attempt to increase control on Internet, they will face European court on YouTube ban!

Someone should advise the government about the nature of web. In fact, the ruling party invests more on the web campaigns than all other ones. But in case of governmentality issues related to web, I haven’t seen any innovative ideas so far… Despite AKP’s great attempts on democratization, nothing happens on the Web scene. Unfortunately, it is quiet conservative when it comes to Web.

There have recently been two news about what Turkish authorities are up to: to create a Google rival and to start an email surveillance from the birth (all news below). While they play with these idiotic plans, a group of Turkish internet users had a creative idea and decided to take to YouTube ban to ECHR. Congratulations! I will try to get news about those users soon.

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Global Voices introduces Threatened Voices

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Introducing Threatened Voices

from Global Voices Online by Sami Ben Gharbia

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Never before have so many people been threatened or imprisoned for what the words they write on the internet.

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