XPost: soc.culture.greek, soc.culture.turkish   
   From: smyrna@isgreek.org   
      
   Mitsos wrote:   
   > Xtes-00k wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   Turkey Blocks Access to YouTube Again   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>           Published: 3/13/08, 12:25 PM EDT   
   >>   
   >> ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Turkey blocked access to the popular   
   >> video-sharing Web site YouTube on Thursday in response to a video clip   
   >> deemed insulting to the country's revered founding father, state-run   
   >> media said.   
   >>   
   >> A court in the capital of Ankara ordered the ban at the request of a   
   >> prosecutor who had argued the clip was disrespectful to Mustafa Kemal   
   >> Ataturk, who died seven decades ago, the Anatolia news agency said. It   
   >> was not clear how long the ban would last.   
   >>   
   >> Turkey briefly imposed bans on access to YouTube on similar grounds in   
   >> the past, but access was restored after the Web site removed the videos.   
   >>   
   >> Under Turkish law, it is a crime to insult Ataturk, a war hero who   
   >> founded Turkey from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire.   
   >>   
   >> The YouTube bans in Turkey have highlighted the country's troubled   
   >> record on free expression which Turkey wants to improve as part of its   
   >> bid to join the European Union.   
   >>   
   >> Last month, Pakistan briefly blocked access to YouTube because of a   
   >> video featuring a Dutch lawmaker who has said he plans to release a   
   >> movie portraying Islam as fascist.   
   >>   
   >> The move inadvertently cut access for most of the world's Internet   
   >> users for up to two hours, highlighting the vulnerability of the   
   >> Internet.   
   >>   
   > Those Turds are really sensitive " souls ". Them insulting versus others   
   > insulting them is 8 to 1.   
   > For every non-Turk who is insulting a Turd you have 8 Turds insulting   
   > non-Turds.   
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