Censorship is paralleling political turmoil in parts of the Middle East
Reuters is reporting that "a source in Turkey's telecoms industry" shares that Google Inc.'s (GOOG) video-sharing site YouTube and microblogging platfrom Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) were both blocked in Turkey on Monday, following a court decision. The crackdown comes after "individuals" complained to the court claiming that terrorists were posting political propoganda to the popular web services. The court agreed, and the services were ordered to be censored.
It's unclear how long the current censorship will last, but this isn't the first time Turkish courts have imposed such a ban. YouTube was banned for periods in 2007 and 2008 amid local unrest. Most recently in March 2014, Turkish courts temporarily ordered both Twitter and YouTube blocked to prevent the dissemination of supposed leaks ahead of Turkey's elections.
The leaked audio recordings were puportedly ofPrime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's inner circle. In the recordings officials appeared to be engaging in corrupt dealings. Erdogan's camp, however, claims the recordings were fakes generated by opposition leaders. His administration successfully petitioned the court to impose internet blockades to limit their impact.
The latest crackdown comes amid a fresh wave of violent political unrest.
Pro-communist/far left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) stormed the office of a prosecutor in Istanbul whom they allege was corrupt. When police tried to storm the facility, the prosecutor was shot. He eventually died in surgery at a local hospital. Both gunmen were also shot dead by police commandos during the raid.
The U.S. callsDHKP-C a terrorist group and there's claims that it's backed by Putin's regime in Russia. The group claimed responsibility for a 2013 suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Istanbul. The DHKP-C is just one of several groups -- both pro- and anti-Erdogan that's been vying for public sentiment in the Turkish state. Earlier this year nationalist, pro-Erdogan hackers defaced a number of websites.
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Sometimes its censorship. Sometimes its unfortunate implications. And sometimes its straight-up unexplainable. But whatever the justification may be, games get renamed all the time when theyre released across different regions.
Lets look at ten particular cases of video game name changes:
Edited Title: Retitled to Canis Canem Edit in the United Kingdom.
The Reason? Bully, a game about high school life that was presumed prior to release to be all about, well, bullying, attracted a lot of controversy in both the U.S. and Europe. In the U.K., specifically, where Rockstar changed Bullys title to Canis Canem Edit, anti-bullying organizations campaigned against the games release, and even the countrys rating board came under fire for giving it a 15 rating.
Strangely, the games updated version for the 360 and the Wii, Bully: Scholarship Edition, was allowed to keep the Bully title when it came out two years later. It still caused controversy though.
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Edited Title: Gryzor, then Probotector in Europe and Oceania.
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DireTube News - This infographic shows the scope of Internet censorship around the globe DireTube is the Largest online Media in Ethiopia Since 2008.
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Business | tags: censorship, internet, venezuela February 24, 2014 by Nick Farrell.
The beleaguered Venezuela president, Nicolas Maduro, has shown he has absolutely nothing to hide as protestors take to the streets against his government. Hes turned off the internet and TV.
It would appear that Maduro is worried that protestors might be using the internet to organise their dissent, but shutting down the telly stations indicates that he is more worried about the world seeing what he is doing. Read the rest
US hacks, who have already sold their souls to corporations, are now self-censoring their copy to avoid upsetting the government.
Suzanne Nossel, executive director of the PEN American Centre, said that surveys from Pew Research indicate that the National Security Agency programsmes are actually supported by roughly half of Americans, even though many believe that their own personal e-mails and calls have been read. Read the rest
The crime and security minister, James Brokenshire has decided save the UK from sites which are not British by bringing in censorship.
He announced the end of the free internet in the UK by saying that he will order ISPs to block sites which he thinks are too dangerous to be seen by the great unwashed. Read the rest
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