Sunday, October 26, 2008

This Blog: Banned

on this friday the 24th, blogger and blogspot fell the way of youtube, wordpress, and a specific Richard Dawkins' site: banned from Turkish IP addresses. (see here here here)


youtube was banned after videos satirizing/attacking/insulting Kemal Atatürk, the much revered founder of modern Turkey, had been posted.

wordpress was banned after the lawsuit of an Islamic creationist.

the reasons for restricting blogger/blogspot have not been officially released. i don't think this tube baby said anything too harmful. in case yr wondering, i'm now using a proxy to get to the site and post. most of my students do the same thing so they can watch youtube. the proxy changes what i see on the page though, so i can't add pics or embed links, or do all the things that make this blog pretty.

but this does mean that the blog is super rebellious and radical- so super rebellious and radical that it is officially banned by court order. these words are now civil disobedience.


-tb

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