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It's time out for Wikipedia in Turkey:
If you try to open Wikipedia in Turkey right now, you'll turn up a swirling loading icon, then a message that the server timed out.
Turkey has blocked Wikipedia. If you're inside the country, you can only access the online encyclopedia through a virtual private network connection to a system outside the country.
Turkish officials reportedly asked the online encyclopedia to remove content by writers "supporting terror."
Wikipedia "has started acting as part of the circles who carry out a smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena, rather than being cooperative in fight against terror," ministry officials said, according to Al Jazeera. It tried to show Turkey "at the same level and in cooperation with terror groups."
Other coverage: https://turkeyblocks.org/2017/04/29/wikipedia-blocked-turkey/
http://aa.com.tr/en/science-technology/turkey-wikipedia-blocked-for-disregarding-the-law/808072
(Score: 5, Insightful) by turgid on Monday May 01 2017, @04:06PM (10 children)
Fascism is coming and has been for a few years now. It's been on it's way with the likes of Putin, Farage, Wilders, Le Pen, Erdogan, the hard-right regime now in Poland, and Useful-Idiot-In-Chief Pull-My-Finger Trump. And the Great Unwashed clap and cheer as it marches on and shout down any sort of dissent. Satire offends them particularly.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday May 01 2017, @05:26PM (4 children)
We're going to have the best, I mean if you think about it, nobody will have better fascism than us. I mean a lot of press coverage, and I'm talking about the fake news, and they really are failing. But a lot of press coverage since I took office, and I won by a bigger electoral victory than any president ever. And a larger popular vote too if you exclude the hacked votes. And we've got to do something, I mean we cannot allow our elections to be hacked. But a lot of press coverage since I took office mentions fascism. The best fascism. And I can understand, I mean it makes sense, why they would mention fascism so much, just like they mention jobs. They don't want either one going away to China. So we've got to keep both right here in the US. And I'm going to sign an executive order to bring jobs and fascism back. People will just love it. Trust me. I know my fascism and jobs. America will be number one. When you're cautiously looking for fascists -- hire American!
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday May 01 2017, @05:38PM (3 children)
Yes sir-ee!!!
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday May 01 2017, @05:51PM (2 children)
> Satire offends them particularly.
I don't know which is funnier. The satire. Or their response to it as if ignoring the reality of things it is a satire of. That no win choice is probably why it is so offensive.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday May 01 2017, @06:14PM
Bingo!
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday May 01 2017, @07:38PM
Steward Lee had a good piece in the Guardian yesterday [theguardian.com] about the Alt-Wrong^H^H^H^H^HRight and how they have used the Internet to great effect, bringing about the recent surge in right-wing populism, explaining his own encounters with their deceitful reporting.
It begins:
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 4, Interesting) by seeprime on Monday May 01 2017, @05:46PM (2 children)
I'd rather have rightly on my side fighting off the growing scourge of radical Islam than allow them into my neighborhood where liberal politicians have been giving them a pass due to their "culture". Sorry, I don't buy it. Fascism is wrong. But so is supporting a group that bases it's actions on a book that tells believers they must convert or kill non-believers. If you haven't read the Koran, you don't understand the depth of the radical insanity that is rooted in it.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:20PM (1 child)
You're absolutely right.
I'd rather have lefty on my side fighting off the growing scourge of radical Christianity than allow them into my neighborhood where conservative politicians have been giving them a pass due to their "culture". Sorry, I don't buy it. Fascism is wrong. But so is supporting a group that bases it's actions on a book that tells believers they must convert or kill non-believers. If you haven't read the Bible, you don't understand the depth of the radical insanity that is rooted in it.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Tuesday May 02 2017, @03:02AM
Objection to methods and tactics of radical Islam is far from being limited to Christians, and attacking them is not going to be productive.
The primary concern among the people is not the discussion about which god is greater, but a mere preference to stay alive. Most people also feel uncomfortable seeing reports from the front lines, where jihadis are destroying everyone and everything in their path. It's kind of not customary these days to wage religious wars... What ISIS is doing can be called the reverse Crusade, an enterprise that is just as honorable and holy as all the previous ones. Stopping that Crusade is kind of important. But no, too many politicians want to use those armed peasants as cannon fodder against others. In the end, of course, the fighters will be written off and destroyed, as they are too dangerous. Many will survive, full of revenge, and the cycle will continue with some other 9/11...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:47PM (1 child)
Farage, Wilders, Le Pen etc is a direct reaction to the complete lack of will to stop the tide of the migrant invasions into Europe. Unless that is taken into account. The events taking place don't make sense.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:50PM
An hour and 41 minutes, eh? Been asleep on the job? Has uncle Vlad been cutting back on funding since Farage won? Surely he's not complacent about Le Pen now, is he?