BTK (State Internet Authority) members visiting the President. I don’t see any hope for netizens from this photo:) On Aug 22, Turkish authorities are planning to start a filtering system for all citizens. Unapologetically, Turkey aims for a censored web…. Turkish netizens started to campaign on Twitter in order to demonstrate this sinister and shameless … Read more
Turkish highschool students run during celebrations marking May Day in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, May 1, 2011. Activists flooded Turkey’s largest city Istanbul Sunday and marked international workers’ day around the world with marches demanding more jobs, better working conditions and higher wages. About 200,000 workers gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square in the largest May Day … Read more
here is the official letter sent to Turkish hosting companies by Turkish Telecommunications Authority. Most of the words are pornographic. In any case, this is yet another arrogant attack to our freedoms by the establishment. News in Turkish can be found here and here Intense discussions in Turkish occured in Friendfeed: here, here, here.
…I see that El Mundo is also banned in Turkey… I have no idea why it is banned…update: it is banned due to broadcasting the infamous Baykal sex video… here is the link to the original piece that I cannot access thru my laptop – it is time change settings, I guess-
Journalists held a protest near the courthouse. The banner read ‘We will touch even if we get burned.’ DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GÜREL Journalist Şık Absent at Court – Transportation Mishap at Prison Bianet On Thursday (14 April) the Kadıköy (Istanbul) 2 nd Criminal Court of First Instance held a hearing of the trial … Read more
Wikileaks Resources Wikileaks Resources 1. Wikileaks Events Calendar 2. Wikileaks Petitions 3. Support Wikileaks 4. Main Wikileaks Resources 5. Cablegate Resources 6. War Leaks 7. Frequent Falsehoods 8. Twitter Archive 9. Press Archive 10. Video Archive . . . Wikileaks Events Calendar (may take a minute to load) Please note, some events may be duplicated. … Read more
Anti-censorship activists make a list of banned sites in Engelli Web.
The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011 from Berkman Center Newsfeed by syoung The Berkman Center is pleased to share a new report from the OpenNet Initiative (ONI): West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011 The report analyzes the use of American and Canadian-made tools … Read more
Of course, it is not nice. In a human sense. Nor the reactions are nice. The PM and others are not showing the same level of negative reaction to recently increasing police brutality. Moreover, citizens of this country witnessed several times police officers not behaving nice to deputies. In terms of deep state, bureacrats were … Read more
Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar A cyberwar is brewing, and Anonymous reprisal attacks on HBGary Federal shows how deep the war goes. Haroon Meer “Cyberwar” is a heavily loaded term, which conjures up Hollywood inspired images of hackers causing oil refineries to explode. Some security celebrities came out very strongly against the thought … Read more
The protest came one day before the annual March 14 Medicine Day, which is dedicated to health workers. via [it says in the placard: “We follow the way of Dr. Che”. Minister of Health criticised the demonstration citing this one… E.S.] Health workers protest Turkish government’s health policies from Hurriyet Dailynews by ANKARA – … Read more
Outrageous ban on Blogspot.com continued today in Turkey. Due to a few blogs in copyright infringement, a Turkish court banned the whole Blogspot. Along with WordPress, Blogspot is one of the most used blogging platform among Turkish bloggers so this ban is basically breaking down Turkish blogosphere. There are many ways to circumvent the ban … Read more
Due to Lig TV’s copyright infringement case against particular blogs, a mighty local court in Diyarbakır, Turkey issues an access ban to Blogspot. Another shameful, outrageous attack against our Internet freedom… blogumadokunma means “don’t touch my blog!” As of 16:00 local time, the campaign becomes the top Twitter trend in Turkey Trends…
Parvana Persiani was kind enough to share this piece with me. Hopefully Parvana will send letters regularly on the state of cybersphere in Azerbaijan. E.S. Azerbaijan: Fighting Nile Flood? It seems that it is not only neighboring Arabic countries that are concerned about upraise of national protests influenced by those in Tunisia and Egypt. Azerbaijan, … Read more
Egypt: Avaaz.org and Tor team up to fight the Internet blackout, you can help from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin by NickKristof: “pro-democracy protesters taking photos with soldiers on Tahrir. Hope they stay friendly. Egypt: Real Change Comes from the Street from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by John Stanton I commented some years ago on the troubles … Read more