Stop bashing Turkey. YT is banned in many EU cuntries time to time. this is not cencorship but simply implimentation of law.

I despite Turk haters !

funny that somebody from Bahrain who is a female and not allowed to vote due to her gender dares to criticise Turkey where woman got right to vote over 7 decades ago?

Turk haters? Dude, this is about censorship. We hate the game, not the playa’.

Secondly, I’m sorry to burst your bubble of sheer ignorance, but not only are women in Bahrain allowed to vote, we enable female candidates to run for parliament as well. We currently have 2 female ministers in the cabinet. So before you irrelevantly bash my country in such a nationalistic manner, learn your facts. I don’t take offense to people criticizing my country if it was actually mistaken. I wouldn’t dare to ever deny it.

PS – If such a ban took place in Bahrain, we would’ve raised hell. Because we actually care for our country and our rights within it, unlike you.

YT is banned in many EU cuntries time to time.

Oh yeah? Care to tell us where, when, and for what purpose? With links to factual articles, please.

funny that somebody from Bahrain who is a female and not allowed to vote due to her gender dares to criticise Turkey where woman got right to vote over 7 decades ago?

At least women there get to choose what they wear. Women’s rights is not exactly exemplified by banning the hejab; though this is what happened in Turkey. Women get fired from their teaching jobs if they choose to wear the Muslim headscarf. Why competitively brag about your country when it’s so far from perfect, and why insult others in the process of doing so? If you don’t want others to criticize your country then you should probably focus on fixing in instead of being in denial.

Ah, Murad. The voice of reason <3

History shows that people denied the freedom to communicate openly will find other ways, even at the risk of being caught and punished.

Are there underground webistes on the the Net that are proxies for reaching banned sites, or people who can get to the content reposting it where it can be reached if you know where to look?

Imagine if Bahrain banned youtube – there’d be articles all over the place saying how it was backsliding, and how this summoned the death knell of reform etc, whereas Turkey does something like this and there’s virtual media silence. You can understand the US media establishment not wanting to criticise Turkey, what with its cooperation in Israel’s bombing of Syria last week. Western liberals on the other hand wants to promote Turkey as a model Islamist democracy, so you its hardly surprising we haven’t heard much about this incident from them either.

Still, its sad to see blog commentators defending this stupidity. At least in Bahrain you’d find that if the government did something like this bloggers would be slagging it off, not trying to defend it with absurd arguments.

I am surfing the web now cruising for a reaction. Why aren’t there any? When Morocco banned YouTube, petitions and campaign sites as well as blogger solidarity took over the MENA blogosphere. When Turkey banned wordpress, only slightly over 100+ signed the MEY petition about it?

Wow, wake up Turkey, and show us some activism!!

MyTwoCents:

“History shows that people denied the freedom to communicate openly will find other ways, even at the risk of being caught and punished.”

I dont think so, look at the dark ages and other periods on mankind, you can also look at totalitarian states dictatorships etc. if people are afraid they do not even speak a word my friend, if they are adequately intimidated they chicken out, you might hear a voice or two but those might also be silenced
so don’t count on it much

YouTube is not blocked for now.

Hello, John,

Totalitarian states is exactly what I was thinking of. There were underground newspapers, banned books being circulated, illegal radios, etc. in Nazi Germany, the USSR, and many (maybe all) others.

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