World's largets blog hosting service banned in Turkey
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Ankara - A court in south-east Turkey on Friday banned Turkish internet users from accessing Blogger, the world's largest free blog hosting service. Internet users in Turkey discovered Friday afternoon that the site, which hosts millions of blogs, or web logs, had been blocked. When users tried to view a blogger's page they were redirected to a message which said: "Access to this website has been suspended in accordance with decision no. 2008/2761 of the TR Diyarbakir First Criminal Court of Peace." No reason for the ban was given. Turkish internet users are used to court-ordered bans of a large range of websites, including the video-sharing site Youtube, which was barred for hosting a video insulting the founder of the Turkish republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Adnan Oktar, an Islamic creationist has also been successful in getting a variety of sites banned by court decisions, including blog hosting website Wordpress and the personal website of renowned biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins.
Copyright DPA
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Application hosting
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Alex ,
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:15:32 GMT
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How can they ban without giving reason? They have to give reason to ban. I am using Onthenetoffice for my medical application hosting and it gives me more benefit of using it.
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http://www.basbasbas.com/blog/
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Bas - Istanbul Expat ,
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:41:45 GMT
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And Turkish bloggers are all very p**sed off. ;-)
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