In a 1,5 hour live interview in a TV Show that focuses on social media, the President explicitly and his interviewers implicitly stated that there was actually no web censorship in Turkey. Digital natives are bombarding this event at Ekşi Sözlük or at several Friendfeed feeds, ie here and here The presenter of the show … Read more
French President Sarkozy Sees Opportunity for Censorship, Seizes It from EFF.org Updates by jillian In the wake of a horrific rampage, in which Mohamed Merah (now dead after a 32-hour standoff with police) reportedly murdered three French soldiers, three young Jewish schoolchildren, and a rabbi, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has begun calling for criminal … Read more
TwitStreet.com: Twitter borsası bir tık uzakta from Webrazzi by Ümit Öncel TwitStreet, Engin Güller tarafından geliştirilen sonrasında ekibe Çağdaş Özek?in de katıldığı bir Twitter takipçi borsası oyunu ‘Twitter’ın nasıl kullanıldığına itirazım var’ Akşam TBMM Başkanı Çiçek, 4+4+4’le ilgili yaşanan süreçte makamı tartışmaya açmamak için sustuğunu belirterek, “Orta yol bulmaya çalıştım ama elimiz havada kalıyor” dedi. … Read more
News in Turkish here and here.
Anonymous Ve Anonimlik Vurgusu Anonymous yazı dizimize kaldığımız yerden devam ediyoruz. Konuğumuz Sosyal Kafa TV programından tanıdığımız Erkan Saka sosyalsosyal.com için bir yazdı; ‘Enemies of the internet’ named from BBC News | Europe | World Edition Belarus and Bahrain join Reporters Without Borders’ annual list of the countries with the most repressive policies against cyber-dissidents. … Read more
Yandex processes 2 million+ people searches daily, debuts ?social search program? from The Next Web by Robin Wauters Yandex, Russia?s biggest Internet search and related services company, this morning announced the launch of a?social search program? (note: links to page in Russian), aiming to inject content and account information from a wide variety of local … Read more
Anonymous Unleashes Coordinated Attack Against Governments, Law Enforcement from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Anonymous is on the move. The hacker group has claimed credit for coordinated attacks and leaks against the U.S. government and international law enforcement agencies Friday. According to Twitter accounts associated with the group of ?hacktivists,? more activity can be expected throughout … Read more
No arrest for Armenian soldier?s killer from Hurriyet Daily News A military court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır ruled Jan. 30 to continue without arrest the trial of suspect Kıvanç Ağaoğlu in the case of Sevag Şahin Balıkçı, a Turkish citizen of Armenian origin killed under dubious circumstances while performing his military service in … Read more
ACTA ?Is More Dangerous Than SOPA? by Lance Ulanoff SOPA and PIPA are stalled (or dead) in the halls of the U.S. Congress. Yet, there may be a bigger, perhaps more dangerous threat to Internet freedoms on the way, called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. At least that?s how U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, … Read more
Twitter’s Tough Balancing Act from social media vb by jkim Twitter users everywhere are reacting to the news, and I’ve read several articles taking stance on the latest decision by Twitter. They ranged from good to really bad, and you can find plenty of examples a last couple of days. After sleeping on Twitter censorship … Read more
Twitter caves to global censorship, will block content on country-specific basis as required by Xeni Jardin EFF: “What Does Twitter?s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression?” by Xeni Jardin What Does Twitter?s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression? from EFF.org Updates by eva Yesterday, Twitter announced in a blog post … Read more
I will be alert to blog about the SOPA development in the next few days… Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) – Wikipedia Check out the gallery I prepared using Pinterest: anti-SOPA imagery
Üniversite Rektörlüklerine, 26 Aralık 2011 tarihinde bazı basın yayın organlarında 22 Kasım 2011’de uygulamaya giren, devlet eliyle merkezi filtreleme yapılarak vatandaşlara sunulan “Güvenli İnternet” hizmetinin bazı üniversiteler tarafından desteklendiği, faydalı ve örnek bir uygulama olarak nitelendiği ve ilgili bir kararın senatolarda alındığına dair haberler yer almıştır. İnternet’in Güvenli Kullanımı, Yeni Medya ve Medya konusunda, ulusal … Read more
Darwin Sites Banned – Survival of the Fittest? The children profile of the internet filtering system enforced on 22 November banned access to all web sites related to the theory of evolution and to naturalist Charles Darwin. Mmm… hot hot Darwin porn, as banned by the Turkish government Darwin censored by the Turkish government’s porn … Read more
this was written in the middle of summer 2011… An attempt to understand what the proposed internet filtering system means by Erkan Saka [PDF] Erkan Saka Assistant Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, School of Communication Blogger at http://erkansaka.net As of March 2011, Reporters Without Borders would include Turkey on its 2011 list of 16 countries “under surveillance” … Read more