Source: ET
Until a day ago, the ban was widely circumvented by Turkish Twitterers, but on March 22, the government blocked Twitter access at the IP level. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
The battle for free speech in the age of the internet is going on across the world. Freedom of speech, these days is seen as a human right, not a privilege granted by individual governments and it is individual governments that are discomfited by those freedoms that work the hardest to stifle a fundamental right. The Turkish government has blocked access to the micro-blogging website Twitter after it objected to particular content posted by Turkish users of the service that were an embarrassment to the government. On March 23, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected accusations of intolerance — which has been widely condemned globally with the US comparing it with “burning books” — and said that he failed to understand “how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter” as they are home to “all kinds of lies”. His words may be a harbinger of bans yet to come.
Categories: Europe, Europe and Australia, Turkey
If he was clean man why to bother. Some thing looks fishy fishy and most probably he is taking this great country to destrictive path.