A Turkish court blocked access to YouTube last week for hosting a video that portrayed Atatürk, the founder of Turkey, as a monkey. This violated several Turkish laws, including Article 301, which was in the news so much after the assassination of Hrant Dink last year. 301 is the law that makes it a crime to insult Turkishness.
I thought it was funny that Milliyet, one of the major national newspapers in Turkey, had a full-page spread on the most popular Turkish YouTube videos just a couple days after the ban went into effect. Did they miss the story?
If you’re keeping track, this is the second time access to YouTube has been blocked in Turkey in less than a year.
4 comments ↓
Wow. How are the people of Turkey supposed to watch funny cat videos? Unbelievable!
Can we get UNICEF or someone to send funny animal videos in?
I would recommend contacting your local LOLCATS office; they appear to be organizing some kind of grassroots campaign to overturn the ban.
Grassroots cat iz in ur internetz…..reroutin’ ur YouTube!
Leave a Comment