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   Mitsos to All   
   Re: Turkey Blocks Access to YouTube Agai   
   13 Mar 08 19:09:56   
   
   XPost: soc.culture.greek, soc.culture.turkish   
   From: smyrna@isgreek.org   
      
   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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