Blogspot service banned in Turkey

It’s not for nothing that Turkey is considered one of the countries with a powerful government influence on the Internet. The Turks are blocking YouTube because someone is posting video parodies of the leaders of the Turkish government, and now Blogspot has been banned. The reason is again not particularly global - in one of the blogs, Turkish Internet censors found pirated video of a football match. Immediately, the Turkish company that provides satellite TV services went to court with the intention of punishing the blogger who posted the record. The court, without thinking twice, blocked the entire Blogspot.

In principle, such things happen in Russia, when, for example, a provider by a court decision blocks the entire LJ because of one blog, the materials of which were deemed extremist by the court. We are slowly beginning to get used to such cases, but Google is still surprised. The management of the service Blogspot is now surprised by the fact that the right holders did not turn to Google to resolve this issue, but decided to go to a Turkish court. The fact is that Blogspot is a fairly handy tool that allows copyright holders to submit an application for the detection of illegal content. According to the developers, such issues are resolved quickly enough, and it is not clear why the Turks decided to do without the help of the service itself.
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Currently, hundreds of thousands of Turkish bloggers are left without access to their favorite blogs for blogs on the Blogspot service. It is possible that after a while the Turks will remove the lock, having understood the problem, but there are not so many chances for this. After all, the blocking of the YouTube service in Turkey lasted about two years, and almost immediately after the ban was lifted, the Turks briefly blocked YouTube again (controversial videos parodying the leaders of the Turkish government were again posted).

Well, let's wait for the development of events, trying to guess the duration of the Blogspot blocking by the Turks at this time. So far, activists of the movement to protect the rights of Internet users in Turkey are planning to hold several protests.

Via bbc.co.uk