Comments on: YouTube banned in Turkey http://theutubeblog.com/2007/03/07/youtube-banned-in-turkey/ an unofficial blog on YouTube + the video file sharing industry Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:46:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Ben Densin http://theutubeblog.com/2007/03/07/youtube-banned-in-turkey/#comment-5590 Ben Densin Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:12:36 +0000 http://theutubeblog.com/2007/03/07/youtube-banned-in-turkey/#comment-5590 At this moment, I'm sitting here in Izmir, Turkey, reading the post and replying. So apparently the Turkish government didn't block access to YouTube. I've also watched a few videos there over the past couple of weeks. The Turks are very sensitive to insults about Ataturk. Turkey has done a lot to improve free speech in the country over the past years as part of reforms necessary to enter the European Union, but it has a ways to go yet... personally, the way the Turks feel about their founder, I would be completely shocked if they ever made it legal to insult Ataturk here. But I must agree, blocking access to YouTube doesn't help anything. At this moment, I’m sitting here in Izmir, Turkey, reading the post and replying. So apparently the Turkish government didn’t block access to YouTube. I’ve also watched a few videos there over the past couple of weeks. The Turks are very sensitive to insults about Ataturk. Turkey has done a lot to improve free speech in the country over the past years as part of reforms necessary to enter the European Union, but it has a ways to go yet… personally, the way the Turks feel about their founder, I would be completely shocked if they ever made it legal to insult Ataturk here. But I must agree, blocking access to YouTube doesn’t help anything.

]]> By: internetman http://theutubeblog.com/2007/03/07/youtube-banned-in-turkey/#comment-3891 internetman Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:46:45 +0000 http://theutubeblog.com/2007/03/07/youtube-banned-in-turkey/#comment-3891 You cannot access Taiwanese sites in China by using Google... no comments .. If you are in France and if you say 'There has been no genocide against Armenian', you are sent to jail... no comments .... and now you are judging free speech by this article!!!.... no comments.... Free speech seems to be defined by those who has got power, don't you think?! You cannot access Taiwanese sites in China by using Google… no comments ..

If you are in France and if you say ‘There has been no genocide against Armenian’, you are sent to jail… no comments ….

and now you are judging free speech by this article!!!…. no comments….

Free speech seems to be defined by those who has got power, don’t you think?!

]]> By: John Mackenzie http://theutubeblog.com/2007/03/07/youtube-banned-in-turkey/#comment-3862 John Mackenzie Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:14:06 +0000 http://theutubeblog.com/2007/03/07/youtube-banned-in-turkey/#comment-3862 free speech? what? free speech? what?

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