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Wikipedia Blocked in Turkey

posted by on Monday May 01 2017, @01:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the doesn't-the-internet-route-around-censorship? dept.

takyon writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Monday May 01 2017, @05:38PM (3 children)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 01 2017, @05:38PM (#502394) Journal

    Yes sir-ee!!!

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday May 01 2017, @05:51PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 01 2017, @05:51PM (#502404) Journal

    > 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

      by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 01 2017, @06:14PM (#502424) Journal

      Bingo!

    • (Score: 2) by turgid on Monday May 01 2017, @07:38PM

      by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 01 2017, @07:38PM (#502472) Journal

      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:

      Last Sunday, Le Pen was predicted a 92% landslide; Serge Gainsbourg’s zombie corpse, barely discernible from his living form, rose from the grave and endorsed the Front National; and, apparently, 10-hour queues meant it wasn’t worth busy French metropolitan liberals turning up to vote, as they would not then have time to drink absinthe in Saint-Denis, dance with Moulin Rouge showgirls and pursue their extramarital affairs before bed.