Turkey Bans YouTube?

Turkey Bans YouTube?

January 20th, 2008

Whoa. Several months ago I was getting slammed by some “friends” in Turkey, who were hellbent on taking down my site. Why? I have no idea, but they really, really, liked visiting my site for some reason.

A Turkish court has again blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube because of clips allegedly insulting the country’s founding father, according to reports Sunday.

It was the second time Turkey banned the site because of clips deemed disrespectful to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. It is illegal in Turkey to insult the revered figure, whose portrait still hangs in nearly all government offices nearly 70 years after his death.

Users trying to access the Web site from Turkey were met with notices in English and Turkish saying it was banned under an Ankara court order issued Jan. 17.

If I had only known that all I had to do was insult their country’s founding father, I might have done it months ago and saved myself the grief of having to fight to keep the server running during their attack. Funny though, they offended me and I ended up banning Turkey. Ha! Take that Turkey.

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