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YouTube banned in Turkey, again

article published on 20 January, 2008

According to reports today the extremely popular video sharing site YouTube has been banned in Turkey because of clips that allegedly insult the country's founder. This situation marks the second time Turkey has banned the site and for the same reason. It is actually illegal to insult the national icon, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Turkish courts have deemed twice that YouTube left clips ... [ read the full article ]

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sssharp
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_ 		20. January 2008 @ 22:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Those leaders need to understand the people posting the clips live or lived in their countries. The insults are what you do or have done to your own citizens. Fix your problems.
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attar
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_ 		21. January 2008 @ 06:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Pranksters are also barred from shouting 'Fire' in a crowded theatre.
That prevents panic among the patrons with the secondary benefit being that the prankster doesn't get lynched.
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chaos_zzz
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_ 		21. January 2008 @ 10:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
what? no free speech? thanks lord i'm not a turkey guy .....
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ZimHosein
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_ 		22. January 2008 @ 00:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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According to reports today the extremely popular video sharing site YouTube has been banned in Turkey because of clips that allegedly insult the country's founder.
... and yet for the first time that I can personally recall, I saw a few commercials broad-casted on TV this evening for goTurkey.com I wonder what the countries founder would think about advertising in a country that hosts clips that insult him? Something to think about no?
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twosocks
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_ 		22. January 2008 @ 12:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
if that were the case here in the US then youtube would be banned forever
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_ 		17. February 2008 @ 01:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I feel all countries around the worl need their own version of youtube soo that if countries like this need to police it that has to be a way to do it.
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omax0
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_ 		3. November 2010 @ 07:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Turkey has reimposed ban on youtube after giving access on october 30 2010 for few days. http://techshrimp.com/2010/11/03/turkey-imposes-youtube-ban-again/
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