A huge thanks to “Lou @ 123 Blog Myself” for finding out the inside scoop on the whole deal. Seems someone did piss off someone in Turkey and then in turn pissed this chap’s lawyer off enough who in turn pissed ME and a lot of other people OFF by getting the whole WordPress.com domain banned in Turkey.
Here’s the inside scoop from WordPress support themselves: (an interesting read)
http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/08/19/why-were-blocked-in-turkey/
I like the way it ends referencing the Turkish community and getting their views on it before just acting on it and starting to ban people because of an enthusiastic lawyer. The thing is with the internet, these people can start up any site anywhere and these guys would have a tough time keeping up and banning the world.
Saying that however, I do agree that some control get put on the bastards who generate all the hate speech inciting violence upon the innocent. I say lift the ban by deleting the blogs in that person’s* name but that’s only because I have a bias view based on my block too!
It’s a tough call. But I still agree with freedom of speech!
* I will not reference “that person” as I don’t want my blog affiliated with him
Louisa
August 20, 2007 at 6:12 pm
I just hope this block gets lifted soon…
May I just compliment you on how calmly you are taking this HooX… someone’s ear would have been bleeding by now if this had happened to me!