Turks block YouTube after video calls founder of modern Turkey "gay"

[Ian David]

Turks block YouTube over gay "insult"
published Wednesday, March 7, 2007

A Turkish court ordered access to YouTube's Web site blocked Wednesday after a prosecutor recommended the ban because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Paul Doany, head of Turk Telekom, Turkey's largest telecommunications provider, said his company had immediately begun enforcing the ban.

"We are not in the position of saying that what YouTube did was an insult, that it was right or wrong," Doany told the state-run Anatolia news agency. "A court decision was proposed to us, and we are doing what that court decision says."

Visitors to the YouTube site from Turkey were greeted with the message: "Access to this site has been blocked by a court decision!"

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During the past week, Turkish media publicized what some called a "virtual war" between Greeks and Turks on YouTube, with people from both sides posting videos to belittle and berate the other.

More:
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/03/07/4

[MADem]

1. Ya gotta watch what you say, watch what you do, apparently

Nothing but Attaboys for Attaturk....or else!

[Ian David]

2. HowTo Evade Turkey's YouTube Block - Updated

Wednesday, 7 March 2007



A 27B source inside Turkey reports that some proxies work for routing around the country's block on YouTube, which was instituted at the direction of a court after it found that a Greek video hosted on the site violated a law against ridiculing the country and its leaders.

"Apparently, only Turk Telekom has enacted the ban so far, which is a bit deceptive, since all other providers have to route through Turk Telekom to get out of the country...so it's an effective country-wide ban," the source said.

Things that seem to work now:
- Using Firefox, instead of IE or Safari (though oddly, the screenshot above is from Firefox)

- YouTube videos embedded in a web page or blog work fine

- A proxy, specifically http://youtubeproxy.org/ works well. Just visit that page and then find the video you want to watch.

Others proxies to try include:

http://www.proxymy.com
http://www.proxysmurf.com/
http://www.worksurfing.com/
http://unblockfacebook.com/
http://www.bypassfilter.net/
http://www.ibypass.org/
http://www.ipzap.com/
https://proxify.com/ https://proxify.us/ https://proxify.biz/
http://kproxy.com/index.jsp
http://www.attackcensorship.com/attack-censorship.html
http://mrnewguy.com/
http://www.unblockwebsites.com/
http://spysurfing.com/
https://www.the-cloak.com/anonymous-surfing-home.html
http://www.stupidcensorship.com/
http://www.evilsprouts.co.uk/defilter/
http://www.bypassbrowser.com/
http://www.proxymouse.com/
http://www.fsurf.com/
http://www.browseatwork.com/
http://www.surfonym.com/
http://www.iamnewguy.com/
http://www.ninjaproxy.com/

Find updated proxies here: http://myspaceblockedproxies.com/

More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/howto_evade_tur.html