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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey's fresh ban pushes social media giants to remove content |
| 2015-04-07 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish authorities have blocked access to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube over their initial refusal to remove photos of a prosecutor who was taken hostage by hard boyz in Istanbul, but the ban was revoked as all three social media platforms complied with a court order after eight hours. A recent court ruling seen by daily Hurriyet ordered authorities to block a total of 166 websites that published the controversial photos. Beside the world's largest social media websites in the list, there are also specific links to the stories published by Turkish newspapers. The decision, signed by Bekir Altun, the judge at Istanbul's 1st Criminal Court of Peace, was taken after Istanbul's Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's Terror and Organized Crime Investigation Bureau demanded the ban on news and videos. The decision stated content removal would be implemented and a possible blockage would be put in place if this was not done. A number of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's leading Internet service providers implemented the ban in the afternoon of April 6, an official confirmed after widespread complaints about access problems to the social media websites. Speaking to daily Hurriyet, Internet Service Providers Union (ESB) Secretary General Bulent Kent stressed that "the procedure continues" as all service providers are expected to implement the ban immediately. Tayfun Acarer, the head of the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK), told daily Hurriyet that the ban on Facebook had been lifted after it rapidly complied with the court ruling on April 6. YouTube.com ran the text of a court ruling on its site saying an "administration measure" had been implemented by the country's telecommunications authority (TIB). |
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