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Turkey lifts Youtube ban
A NATION that is famous for exporting all its Greek founders back to a place where they had not lived for 2,000 years has lifted its two-year ban on Youtube.
Turkey, which was mostly created by the Greeks and Romans until it was conquered by the Turks in the 15th century, is a bit sensitive when it comes to its national hero, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Ataturk did much to turn Turkey into a modern state, remove religious influence over politics and prevent the Ottoman Empire from being divided up by the colonial powers after World War I. He is seen as the country's founder, about which no bad word may ever be uttered.
Turkish state-run news agency Anatolian reported over the weekend that the Youtube ban had been lifted because Youtube removed material deemed insulting to Turkey's founder.
Ankara's attorney general ruled that the site, blocked since May 2008, could be reopened.
Youtube has said that it has not censored anything to appease the Turks. It said that a third party, not Youtube, removed some of the videos using its automated copyright complaint process.
Youtube is not sure if those actions were valid in accordance with its copyright policy.
Everyone was unhappy about the ban, even Turkey's President Abdullah Gul, who used his Twitter account to moan about it.
Turkey has been wanting to get into the European Union, but human rights groups and media watchdogs have warned the EU that membership will require the country to reform its restrictive Internet laws.
Turkey's Internet censorship law, first introduced to restrict access to porn and content deemed harmful to children, now bans 5,000 websites that the government does not like. µ
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It is sad to see such a racist article in 21st century IT world... This guy should look in the mirror and ask himself what his grandfathers has done against humanity. If he can still joke about tragedies of 1st and 2nd WW, he does not deserve a comment either...
Easy to accuse those who are victim of racism with "trolling".
The important thing is to recognize one's self inflicted closet racism (ultravioletu). Instigation is a form of terrorism, but practiced intellectually, usually on pages (or websites) by people like Edward.
To see one's mistake while excusing others who belong to his own faith, this writer is at fault.
Now, we have to find out why he is one sided towards Christian nations also censoring internet:
1-Hate of Turks ?
2-Love of Christian nations over Muslim ones?
3-Ignorance ?
I hope it is the third one, at least he can read some wiki pages or history books to see his first statement that wrongfully attacks Turks is wrong.
But, as I have seen so many times, Turks are easy victims of ignorance and prejudiced. After all, we are dealing with a western generation growing up and learning about Turkey from Midnight Express; the evil Turk who tortures the westerner, the good guy.
Turk-trolls?
Come on lads, inquirer is known for cheeky remarks, which are not even meant seriously. You don't have to see religious conspiracy and other crap in every punctuation sign.
If you jump like that on statement like that, I see now why you're boiling like thousands suns every time one says "armenian genocide"...
That first line hooked 'em faster than any article that trashed aPple! Keep up the good work!
Apparently it's ok to conquer a land if u happen to christian, but the rules are a little different for people of other faiths. Can we talk about the worldwide political, cultural and economic subjugation of virtually the entire world by the British? What about the largest and most comprehensive genocide ever conducted? No, not the Jewish holocaust, but the red Indian, by european settlers in North America.
What the writer is talking about on ten first sentence is The population exchange took place between Turkish state and Greek republic in 1920s by the mutual agreement of two nations. I do not see the writer is attacking Greece on this. Perhaps, the writes does not want to trash a Christian nation when there is a Muslim nation next door.
Why Turkey is censoring the Internet is to keep its people away from harms way of ignorant people like the writer of this article that puts out words with no accountability to the editor of the website.
I guess I have to blame the editor of the Inquirer for letting like this guys write racist and inaccurate pieces like above.
Sad that Inquirer is subject to the new pieces of racist writers. Just the beginning of the article I racist and ignorant of a country of 80 million people.
Edward needs to pay attention to the censorship in France and Germany which gets no media attention since they are Christian nations. If Edward is not happy with Muslims due to 9-11, I do suggest that he joins the Army and gets deploy to Afghanistan, instead of fighting on these pages.
Hey W.- If it keeps turkey out of the EU I'm OK with that too. EU and all it's members are rotting in it anyway right?:)) There was no EU before and Turkey still doesn't need it after. Regards
Bit odd to link the internet censorship thing to the EU thing, after all the UK and france and germany all do censorship, and no not just 'to protect the children' but actually often to harm them by depriving them of facts.
(and many others EU members are trying to get laws signed to follow that wonderful fascist policy too.)
But hey, if it keeps turkey out of the EU I'm OK with using any excuse even if it is hypocrite.
First sentence is a trap to attract readers.
I think the writer thinks all civilization in the whole world started at day # 1 after the big bang, without considering where his ancestors have come from.
The rest is well re-searched and typed :)
The first sentence about my nation is a piece of shit.No history knowledge.The rest is ok.Before you inform your readers you should know,what you are talking about,a comment like this just shows how prejudiced you are.