Right now, Blogger and *.blogspot.com domains are available again while courts await further evidence backing Digiturk’s claims. Great. Let’s hope it stays that way. After YouTube got unbanned, it got banned again, so who knows what will happen.
The ban has been lifted by the Turkish court that previously blocked Blogger last Friday. They have requested “missing evidence” but made it clear that the ban could be reintroduced after the legal procedure is completed by the prosecutor.
Digiturk, Turkish license holder for the broadcasts of Turkish football league games, asked for blogs with links to pirated streams to be removed. Blogger did not reply and Digiturk went to court, getting millions of innocent blogs blocked. The statement that “Blogger did not reply” makes me think all Digiturk did was send out an email – and as some of us know, if you email Google services, be prepared to wait two weeks. They should have called.
The law that allows for the blocking of domain names still stands. Many popular sites are still blocked. Blogger can be blocked again. It’s not over, but at least Blogger’s available again. Yet still we can expect to see more of this:
And the protest banner posted on Turkish (as well as international) blogs hosted at blogspot.com:
Thanks to Hans for his useful tip!
Thanks to the Istanbulian for further information.
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14 responses to “Blogger/Blogspot unblocked in Turkey while court awaits missing evidence”
That’s good news – just hope it stands.
The court is waiting for more evidence, so let’s see what’s next.
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Very Good, Keep on writing
Congratulations
Interesting that this happens all over the world. Even here in Australia, there’s talk of internet censorship, revolving more around file sharing sites/programs.
Granted it’s at different levels, but why punish those who are innocent as well? Just too hard to figure out who is innocent? How about until proven guilty.
Interesting post!
Congrats for the time being Bas. Hopefully things get overturned forever in Turkey. This has been a pretty strange series of events.
@ Setfan
Everything I’ve read on Slashdot says such bad things about the internet in Australia or the state of privacy there. It’s chilling.
Take a look at the book at the link below :
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
The Law written by Frédéric Bastiat in 1850 offers encouragement for those fighting for liberty.
I sum up by saying that liberty is worth fighting for and the only way to succeed is to overwhelm oppression with exercise of freedom.
My love for those around the world who choose liberty!
The creator of that banned list is a good friend of mine!
Thanks for the kind words everyone 🙂
Simply incredible. Who would have thought it possible. Well I hope for all of our sakes (your readers) the unblocking stands without further worries that it will be contested. So sorry you are having to deal with this.
Hope it all works out – we sometimes take for granted what we have here – we shouldn’t.
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