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ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The Turkish Parliament approved of a new law that allows government entities to block access to websites, a move critics say is a violation of human rights.

The law allows the transportation, maritime affairs and communications minister to block websites without first obtaining a court order, Today's Zaman reported Wednesday.

The Telecommunications Communication Presidency will also be authorized to block a website if there is a request concerning the violation of the right to privacy.

The Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association said the new law could pose problems in preserving human rights.

Critics said the new law could prevent dissidents and citizen journalists from sharing information about social or political activity, the newspaper said.

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February 06, 2014

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan talks to the media in Istanbul February 3, 2014. Dozens of their colleagues are in prison or on trial, thousands of faceless opponents hound them on Twitter, and phone calls from government officials warn them over their coverage - all hazards of the trade for Turkey's journalists. Government critics who refuse to be muzzled can find themselves sacked. Reuters pic, February 6, 2014. Turkish MPs late yesterday adopted new Internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on freedom of expression, access to information and investigative journalism.

The proposals come amid parallel moves by Erdogan to push through contentious judicial reforms as he fights to keep the lid on a deeply damaging corruption probe entangling some of his closest allies.

After hours of debate, during which opposition MPs blasted the bill as 'censorship', the measures were adopted in the chamber, where Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) dominates with 319 of the 550 seats.

The bill extends what are already hefty Internet curbs in place under a controversial 2007 law that earned Turkey equal ranking with China as the world's biggest web censor according to a Google transparency report published in December.

The text notably permits a government agency, the Telecommunications Communications Presidency (TIB), to block access to websites without court authorisation if they are deemed to violate privacy or with content seen as 'insulting'.

Yaman Akdeniz, law professor at Bilgi private university in Istanbul, said the powers given to the TIB were 'Orwellian'.

This body will also be able to request users' communications and traffic information from hosting providers obliged to retain up to two years' worth of data without a court order, Akdeniz told AFP.

The measures, Akdeniz said, will "move Turkey away from the European Union in terms of Internet policy, perhaps a few steps closer to China", where the web is heavily censored by the communist authorities.

At the start of the debate, opposition lawmaker Hasan Oren had harsher words, comparing Erdogan to Hitler.

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Tony Abbott, Australias prime minister, said he was worried and concerned by ABCs reporting of leaks concerning Australia from US whistleblower Edward Snowden. Photograph: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Australias conservative prime minister Tony Abbott was a journalist in the 1980s, but that hasnt stopped him getting very close to calling for news censorship.

While some of Abbotts more right-wing Liberal Party colleagues see a Marxist plot every time they see or hear anything on the publicly owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the prime minister plays a longer game by kicking the culture wars can on commercial radio.

In his latest interview with Sydney shock-jock Ray Hadley, Abbott said: A lot of people feel at the moment that the ABC instinctively takes everyones side but Australias. I think it dis- mays Australians when the national broadcaster appears to take everyones side but its own and I think it is a problem.

Abbott also said he was worried and concerned by ABCs reporting of leaks concerning Australia from US whistleblower Edward Snowden. The leaks revealed Australias spy agencies had tapped the phones of Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudohoyono and his wife in 2009.

The ABC seemed to delight in broadcasting allegations by a traitor, Abbott said. The ABC didnt just report what he said, they took the lead in advertising what he said and that was a deep concern.

The use of the word advertising was pointed. ABC doesnt have ads and there is no TV licence fee in Australia. It is funded by the government, getting $1.2 billion (788 million) this financial year.

Australias more moderate communications minister Malcolm Turnbull (whom Abbott deposed as leader of the Liberal Party while in opposition) said ABCs internal programming and editorial decisions were the responsibility of the ABC board and executive.

Entitled to opinionHe said while politicians were entitled to their opinion, they could not tell ABC what to broadcast. Whats the alternative . . . the editor-in-chief [of ABC] becomes the prime minister? Turnbull asked.

Greens leader Christine Milne also defended the broadcaster. What Tony Abbott is suggesting is that any news outlet, particularly the ABC, which is critical of any government policy, will come in for criticism from him. The ABC is independent. It is loved by Australians . . . it must be allowed to freely, fairly and fearlessly report the news.

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