turkish cybersphere

Erdoğan awarded as the Internet Villain of 2013 by The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA)

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The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today unveiled the full winners list from last night?s 15th annual 2013 Internet Industry Awards, which saw the award for ?Best Superfast Broadband? go to London ISPHyperoptic and the gong for ?Best Consumer Fixed Broadband? being won by Sky Broadband…. Elsewhere Recep Erdogan (Turkish Prime Minister) bagged the infamous gong for Internet … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Web censorship in Turkey is as real as possible. Critical news site Vagus TV banned today…

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Vagus.tv is a well visited online news site. It has a critical attitude, initiated by journalist Serdar Akinan. I just heard that it is banned today…. In other news:  Child bride?s husband, family face 18 years   An official lawsuit has been filed against the family of child bride Kader Ertem, her husband and the … Read more

Web censorship in Turkey today. Soundcloud blocked. Twitter threatened…

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There is a court order to block Soundcloud after some tapes of PM Erdoğan on the corruption case leaked. Many users did complain about accessing Twitter afternoon. Probably Turkish authorities are testing possible blocking options…

Video: Protests and police violence on the Internet Freedom rally on 18 Jan

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDlk2FxZlko

A GitHub project (!): tyyp:// An application level networking protocol to enable government controlled internets

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Giıthub page here.    tyyp:// TYYP is an application level networking protocol for government controlled information systems, named after the notable 21st century villain Recep Tayyip Erdogan. TYYP was not started or is being coordinated by an open standards consorcium, because openness and freedom are oxymorons of the dictatorial values we commonly share and some … Read more

Activists take stage for Internet Freedom this evening. #18Ocak18deSokaklara #SansüreDurDe

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  Turkish police break up protest against law curbing Internet Riot police fired plastic bullets, tear gas and water cannons at hundreds of people in Istanbul protesting a government plan to expand controls over the public’s use of the Internet on Jan. 18 I will probably be around in Taksim and will switch to my … Read more

40 thousand websites are blocked in Turkey as of today #SansüreDurDe

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A civil initiative has been listing blocked sites in Turkey and has just announced it has gone beyond 40 thousand… Pity for Turkey…  

18 Ocak’a doğru. Bilgilendirmeler. #SansürüDurdur #internetimeDokunma

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p.s. eksik gördüğünüz paylaşımları yorumlara eklerseniz, ana sayfaya eklerim… Change.org kampanyası  Görseller için buraya bakınız: http://erkansaka.net/archives/29005 Sayfalar Ortak Platformu’nun Facebook etkinlik sayfası. 18 OCAK #SansürüDurdur Yürüyüşü Facebook sayfası. İnci Sözlük & Uludağ Sözlük destekli Sansürü Durdur sayfası. Yeni İnternet Yasasını açıklayan güzel bir listeleme. Alternatif Bilişim Derneği Açıklaması Korsan Parti Açıklaması Çevrimiçi güvenlik araçlarıdan seçmeler url tabanlı … Read more

18 Ocak’a doğru… #internetimedokunma Görselleri [Towards 18 January. Internet Freedom March Images]

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Turkish government starts its crusade against Internet Freedom. @Vimeo blocked today.

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News in Turkish here.       

Turkish government is warming up for the strongest attack against internet freedom in Turkey

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For the moment, the best English compilation can be found in Ahmet Sabancı’s blog post: The New Censorship Bill in Turkey 2014 started with a new bill proposal against free speech and internet freedom in Turkey. Down below, you can see what this new regulations brings if it passes. This list copied from Pirate Party Turkey?s … Read more

Alternatif Bilişim Derneği (@altbilisim) açıklaması: “İnternet Sansürü Derinleşiyor”

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AKP’li vekillerin imzasıyla Meclis Başkanlığına sunulan “İnternet Ortamında Yapılan Yayınların Düzenlenmesi ve Bu Yayınlar Yoluyla İşlenen Suçlarla Mücadele Edilmesi Hakkında Kanunda Değişiklik Yapılmasına Dair Kanun Teklifi ve Gerekçesi” birçok konuda endişe verici bir metindir. Torba değişiklikle son derece özensiz bir şekilde yasalaşması beklenen teklif, mevcut sorunları çözmek bir tarafa, problemleri katmerleştirecek öneriler içermektedir. Öncelikle, önergenin gerekçe bölümünde … Read more

Facebook closes yet another Ötekilerin Postası (@OtekilerPostasi) Page, a new one opened…

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Facebook continues to have a negative relationship with activist news service Ötekilerin Postası who provides activist news with a radical left and pro-Kurdish perpestive. Today, it announced from its Twitter account its Facebok page was closed again and it listed the not much reasonable reasons to close down its pages or cases of censorship… Because of … Read more

Not only jailing journalists, Turkey tops Google content removal request list…EFD Rights Watch

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Turkey tops Google content removal request list Government requests to remove content from Google continued to rise in the first half of this year   ******************** Five more released in Feb 28 trial, no arrested suspect left A Turkish court has released five more arrested suspects in the ongoing Feb 28 trial Switzerland Convicted of … Read more

19 Aralık 21:00’de canlı @SosyalKafa- @aforgutu nü temsilen Pınar İlkiz (@pilkiz) ve Gezi Davalarını konuşacağımız Av. @EfkanBolac

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