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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 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!
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(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.
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(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].