YouTube "banned" in Turkey

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Date: March 7, 2007 11:34:40 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: lauren () vortex com
Subject: YouTube "banned" in Turkey


Dave,

Noted in the NY Times:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/youtube-banned-in-turkey- 
after-insults-to-ataturk/

A Turkish court has "banned" YouTube in Turkey due to videos that
are deemed offensive to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the nation's modern
founder.

I quote the word "banned" since such efforts at blocking access to
specific materials will be ultimately unsuccessful.  While Turk
Telekom can block access to the YouTube site, it of course has no
way to block the myriad other locations where the videos in question
can be easily made available, either publicly or privately.
However, by attempting to ban the videos and drawing even more
attention, they will likely result in increasing the videos'
viewership greatly, even within Turkey.

Yet another example of how governmental authorities do not understand
the intrinsic nature and reality of the Internet.  We do not
necessarily have to like all aspects of this reality, but to pretend
that it doesn't exist is counterproductive and in some cases
essentially delusional.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
   - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, IOIC
   - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net
Founder, CIFIP
   - California Initiative For Internet Privacy - http://www.cifip.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com




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