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posted by janrinok on Saturday January 18 2020, @03:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_of_Wikipedia_in_Turkey dept.

After nearly three years, Wikipedia is coming back online in Turkey:

After more than two and a half years, Wikipedia appears to be coming back online in Turkey. The popular online encyclopedia was banned in April 2017 after the Turkish government accused the site of running a "smear campaign" against it.

Late last year, the Constitutional Court of Turkey, the country's highest court, ruled that the order was unconstitutional, paving the way for this week's reappearance, which happened to coincide with Wikipedia's 19th birthday.

Turkey had previously banned YouTube and Twitter, and both of those bans were similarly lifted by the Constitutional Court. In 2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also threatened to ban the iPhone and other electronics that come from US companies.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:31AM (#944875)

    now they have gone thru the withdrawal process.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @07:28AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @07:28AM (#944905)

    Get an offline copy, put it on a server, rewrite links to local server address. Done.
    Fork it.

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday January 18 2020, @09:28AM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 18 2020, @09:28AM (#944933) Journal
      Why bother? - the restriction is being lifted.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:22PM (#944952)

      You won't get an update on the newest Pokemon though.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @02:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @02:24PM (#944972)

    When you give power to one entity or a few entities that are actually run by the same usual suspects, watch them closely and when they inevitably start harming you, ban them, block them and cut off their oxygen supply.

    Facebook and google should be banned in most places because they both cause harm. Both are propaganda services designed and built to spread misinformation and disinformation and smear campaigns when the need arises. Give no one so much power over you that they are able to harm you and get away with it.

    Same for bankers.

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