Global Internet Filtering
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The people of Turkey are facing a stark choice: will they continue to have a mostly free and open Internet, or will they join the two dozen states around the world that filter the content that their citizens see?

Over the past two days, I’ve been here in Turkey to talk about our new book (written by the whole OpenNet Initiative team), called Access Denied. The book describes the growth of Internet filtering around the world, from only about 2 states in 2002 to more than 2 dozen in 2007. I’ve been welcomed by many serious, smart people in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, who are grappling with this issue, and to whom I’ve handed over a copy of the new book — the first copies I’ve had my hands on.

This question for Turkey runs deep, it seems. They are on the knife’s edge, between one world and another, just as Istanbul sits, on the Bosporus, at the juncture between East and West. The majority of those states that filter the net extensively lie to its east and south; its neighbors in Europe filter much more selectively (Nazi paraphenalia Germany and France, e.g., and child pornography in northern Europe). We’ll learn a lot from how things turn out here in the months to come.

An open Internet brings with it many wonderful things: access to knowledge, more voices telling more stories from more places, new avenues for free expression and association, global connections between cultures, and massive gains in productivity and innovation. The web 2.0 era, with more people using participatory media, brings with it yet more of these positive things.

Widespread use of the Internet also gives rise to challenging content along with its democratic and economic gains. As Turkey looks ahead toward the day when they join the European Union once and for all, one of the many policy questions on the national agenda is whether and how to filter the Internet.


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If that happens Turkey will join these countries of internet blockers:-
(Real progress...... )

• Afghanistan
• Algeria
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Belarus
• Burma
• China (including Hong Kong)
• Cuba
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• India
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Libya
• Malaysia
• Moldova
• Morocco
• Nepal
• North Korea
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Sudan
• Syria
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Tunisia
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

OMG, I am a bit shocked to see some countries on this list!!! EGYPT??? (Canli!!!!), Ukraine???? South Korea????

doesnt matter they banned or not,there are still a few ways to enter youtube and the other sites

Ama... the point is that they don´t just block youtube.. they censor EVERYTHING, some things you don´t even know about!!!

Hahahaha,a guy here was self employed and in his own van going to a job and the Police fined him £30 for smoking in the workplace watch out Turq when you use the company car again

We have an equally silly rule. I work for local government and we had a notice the other day telling us that if we give any other employees a lift in OUR OWN CAR we must not smoke.

There is an easy solution....

what happenes to people during prayer time in the Camii whose cell phones start ringing, will they be fined?

Or polluting the air??

Environmental Concerns in Turkey!!!!! I could hardly breath in the city of Bursa!! What an experience.


Ships sailing in Turkish waters, especially through the straits of Istanbul and the Dardanelles, are controlled for oil spills and waste dumping. A Spanish ship sank in Iskendrun Bay. It is claimed that it had chemical waste harmful to the environment and sea life. So many protests and demonstrations were widely held by different orgainizations so that funds were allocated to remove the ship and its load.

i think banning smoking is good i hope they do that in the whole world its good for ur health it stops polloution it stops second hand smoking people would have nice smelling breath my uncle smokes A LOT and believe me he always has mints with him same thing with banning alchol i think that would be good for the whole community!!! i mean ppl do crazy things when theyre drunk they could kill they have accidents and so onand drinking gets u diseases and stuff so i hope they ban both!!!!

why do u see the goverment is your protector when it comes to war and stuff but its not when it comes to your healtha nd other things do u only us ethe goverment when u need it???

i didnt know about that but your goverment still does a lot of things for u but just leave me out of this goverment thing
im sorry ok???

I cannot access youtube as it´s still banned, but I can access it through a site called www.ktunnel.com, but I tried to sign in to access my favourites but I cannot. Does any of you know how to do this? Or it´s not possible at all?

This program completly solves the problem:

Youtube Jacker

 A program and a problem that both should not excist....

really mltm ??!!!  you can´t access youtube, I´m in one of the censoring state and I can access youtube, that´s weird.....

 Wow! Thank you so much. How does it work? It really solves as there´s no ban.

Quoting AEnigmamagnadea

If that happens Turkey will join these countries of internet blockers:- (Real progress...... ) • Afghanistan • Algeria • Azerbaijan • Bahrain • Belarus • Burma • China (including Hong Kong) • Cuba • Egypt • Ethiopia • India • Iran • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Libya • Malaysia • Moldova • Morocco • Nepal • North Korea • Oman • Pakistan • Saudi Arabia • Singapore • South Korea • Sudan • Syria • Tajikistan • Thailand • Tunisia • Ukraine • United Arab Emirates • Uzbekistan • Venezuela • Vietnam • Yemen • Zimbabwe

I´m Tunisian, and YouTube has been banned for a while now, along with DailyMotion. When I try to enter the site, I get a false 404 Error signal. Which means, the webpage is banned.

wow, poor you, egypts on the list but i go on you tube almost everyday!!! so how come it happens in tunisia and not here??

The list is of countries which censor internet, not just youtube. There may be other sites that are banned in your country.

Question: when a country bans sites, does that in your opinion mean that it is a sign of dictatorship? Because then I live in a dictatorial country as well.....

If youre talking about Egypt yeah its a dicatorial country, but not because of the ban, and i dont think that the sites are banned but i htink its filtered, only,but i think banning a site is kind of dictatorial, coz they could ban a lot of sites that could influence ppl´s opinions, that means theyre choosing for them how to think and thats dictatorial!!

Yes, well said Doudi!

 Sometimes I wish some of this rubbish was banned in Scotland as well.

I believe you can very easily move to a country that censors internet.

 Yes, well said Doudi.  Of course there are also web sites that censor their members, thus influencing the course a thread takes, which in turn influences the readers of the threads.

btw Catwoman, where did Alameda´s post disappear to?  It was on page 10 of the thread "Why criticism of Islam is a necessity".  It wasn´t insulting or disrespectful, but very witty

I am sure you´re not that against censorship Peacetrain, so you should be least worried. You know many other witty posts used to be written in this forum, but they didn´t make you laugh so had to be removed.

 None of your personal remarks answers my question,  What happened to Alameda´s post and why was it removed?

My post perfectly answers your question. PM me if you need more information.

 OK, I understand your comment. 

How was the content of her post different to similar comments already made by others on that thread?  Is this a case of selective censorship?

Seems someone threw their toys out of their pram and had the post deleted.

I don´t feel the need to pm you as any explanation you have would not reveal any offensiveness by Alameda, so would be safe for the eyes of members.

Peacetrain, you want to be a mod and see for a couple minutes what it´s like to be on this side?  Maybe you just need to swallow a chill-pill.

 This has to be the most comical post ever.

Nobody forced you to be a mod and, of course, you are free to resign at any time

as you have no idea whether I was forced or not, you have no authority to give me advice on this.

 Even more comical than your last post

That´s all?

İ dont mind some snow storm or something to chill those both thread a bit

 yep  

Girls! Girls!!  Call it a draw for now!!

Why LIR? I wanted just to ask where front seat tickets are sold.....  

 Tickets can be obtained from the TC Box Office, a.k.a. Catwoman´s pm box

 Awww.........I see the "non-gang" gang is back!!! 

 where´s the beer and popcorn???

 I thought you were selling that!

 darn it .. you are right!! it was my turn to do the beer and popcorn providing!!! runnin to the beer store now!!

 You´re sooooooo good at what you do

Can I join in? Popcorn is fine for me but I´ll have raspberry leaf tea instead of beer. I love those self-righteous posts calling for justice and being desperate at gaining attention by b*tching around

 Yeah, no beer for you (yet) - you´ll have to wait a few weeks. And.... hosçakal in the popcorn-gang. (BTW Leelu, only salted for me, sweet popcorn is disgusting.)

 Lucky for you there´s plenty of it here and it goes so well with raspberry leaf tea.  Enjoy! 

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I thought the ban was supposed to have been lifted?  I STILL can´t get into YouTube except by ktunnel.