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posted by cmn32480 on Monday March 19 2018, @02:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the semi-accurate-facts-on-the-internet dept.

The Wikimedia Foundation writes in its blog that even now, after ten months, the people of Turkey are still denied access to Wikipedia by the current Turkish government.

It has been ten months since the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. For almost a year, the 80 million people of Turkey have been denied access to information on topics ranging from medicine, to history, to current events on Wikipedia. After ten months, and in the midst of the school term, the need to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey becomes more urgent every day.

The blog post is light on information but does go on to mention ongoing efforts to negotiate removing the ban. Though mostly it concentrates on what the foundation sees as the benefits to lifting the ban.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @03:28PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @03:28PM (#654945)

    for some reason, a free encyclopedia STILL not working... i'm just not feeling the angst.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @03:46PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @03:46PM (#654955)

    The free encyclopedia works just fine. The unfree country known as Turkey is broken.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @06:24PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @06:24PM (#655046)

      then lets stop worrying about yet another site not working and focus on the problem and not the symptom?

      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday March 20 2018, @11:29AM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @11:29AM (#655329) Journal

        Looking at the symptoms is an important tool for diagnosis and prognosis.

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        The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.