June 20, 2008

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5651 No.lu Kanun, Erişim Engelleme, Sansür, TIB, Turkey June 20, 2008

Bianet: Zararlı İçerikle Mücadelede “İnternet Gönüllüleri” Devri

Biane: Zararlı İçerikle Mücadelede “İnternet Gönüllüleri” Devri: “Zararlı İçerikle Mücadelede ‘İnternet Gönüllüleri’ Devri Bolu, Abant’ta yapılan toplantıda zararlı içeriğe sahip sitelerle mücadele için İnternet polisi ya da mahkeme yerine ‘İnternet Gönüllüleri İnisiyatifi’ oluşturulmasına karar verildi. Istanbul – BİA Haber Merkezi, 20 Haziran 2008, Cuma Tüm dünyada milyonlarca kişi tarafından takip edilen video paylaşım sitesi YouTube’un ‘zararlı içerik’ gerekçesiyle sık sık…

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Sansür June 20, 2008

AB: “Çin’in internet sansürü kabul edilemez”

AB: “Çin’in internet sansürü kabul edilemez”: “Avrupa Birliği Telekomünikasyon yetkilisi Viviane Reding, Çin’in internet üzerinde uyguladığı sansürün ‘kabul edilemez’ olduğunu söyledi.” (Via CNN TÜRK.)

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5651 No.lu Kanun, Blocking and Filtering, Düşünce Özgürlüğü, Sansür, TIB, Turkey, YouTube June 20, 2008

Objectionable Atatürk Videos Keep YouTube Inaccessible

Objectionable Atatürk Videos Keep YouTube Inaccessible: “Turkey is not one of hostile countries to the internet, but it has kept YouTube, the biggest video sharing site, inaccessible for two months because of insulting videos to Atatürk. The prosecutor says it is not enough to remove them from the Turkish database.” (Via Latest Bianet/English News.)

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5651 No.lu Kanun, Censorship, Turkey June 20, 2008

Access? What the heck for?

Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish news: “Access? What the heck for? By YAVUZ BAYDAR, 20.06.2008 These days, wherever you turn, you face the judiciary. In a restless, expanding and opening ‘young’ Turkey, sadly mismanaged, the only way to regain some form of old-fashioned control goes either through loopholes or ambiguous formulations in law and misinterpretations thereof by the judiciary….

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5651 No.lu Kanun, Düşünce Özgürlüğü, Erişim Engelleme, TIB, YouTube June 20, 2008

İnternet gönüllüleri geliyor

İnternet gönüllüleri geliyor: “” Site kapatmaya karşı Abant’ta yapılan toplantıda “kapatma kriterleri” belirlendi, zararlı içerikten kurtulmak için mahkeme ya da internet polisi yerine “internet gönüllüleri” oluşturulması benimsendi. YASEMİN ARPA, NTV-MSNBC Güncelleme: 01:43 TSİ 20 Haziran 2008 Cuma ABANT – Hukukçular, site sahipleri, internet kullanıcıları ve bilişim uzmanları Abant’ta masaya oturdu; 2 gün süren toplantıda site kapatmaya karşı, “zararlı içerik”ten kurtulmanın…

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5651 No.lu Kanun, Blocking and Filtering, Censorship, TIB, Turkey, YouTube June 20, 2008

Long-standing YouTube ban lifted in Turkey only for several hours

Long-standing YouTube ban lifted only for several hours: “Long-standing YouTube ban lifted only for several hours” A court order blocking access to popular video-sharing Web site YouTube that has been in place for one-and-a-half months was rescinded on Tuesday night; however, the Web site remained open only for several hours as it was banned again around 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.

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5651 No.lu Kanun, Censorship, Turkey, YouTube June 20, 2008

Growing Internet Censorship in Turkey

GROWING INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN TURKEY – Eurasia Daily Monitor By Gareth Jenkins, Thursday, June 19, 2008 On June 18 and 19 Turkish lawyers, academics and Internet professionals met in the mountain resort of Abant in the Bolu mountains of northwest Turkey to discuss the increasing censorship of the Internet in Turkey through the use of court orders to block access…