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Govt control of Turkish YouTube

Turkey said on Tuesday it had won a long-running battle to persuade the video-sharing website YouTube to operate under a Turkish web domain, giving Ankara a tighter rein over the site's content and requiring the firm to pay Turkish taxes. Ref. Source 3

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Is it only western countries that keep the internet open for everyone? I read articles like this all the time where other countries are looking for ways to limit or sniffle what people can see or how they use the internet more so in the middle east.

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Erdogan pushing Internet censorship forward:

The Turkish government plans to further tighten its firm grip on the Internet by monitoring user activity and blocking sites for "Privacy violations." Activists are calling this a reaction to anti-government protests. Ref. Source 5

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Turkey approves internet restrictions

Turkey's Parliament has approved legislation that would tighten government controls over the internet. Ref. Source 8

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Turkish police fire tear gas to break up Internet protest: -

Police fired water cannon and teargas to disperse hundreds of people protesting in central Istanbul on Saturday against new controls on the Internet approved by parliament this week. Ref. Source 1

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Police put down protest against controversial Internet law in Istanbul:

A fresh protest in Istanbul to denounce a new bill increasing state control over the Internet was yet again met with a harsh police intervention Ref. Source 4

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PM vows to "wipe out" Twitter

TWITTER has gone dark in Turkey after the PM vowed to "wipe out" the social network for refusing to remove banned links. Ref. Source 4

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How Turkey still tweets despite Twitter ban

Not long after Turkey's prime minister imposed a ban on Twitter, internet users in Turkey went on - what else? - Twitter to find ways to circumvent the blockade. Twitter and Turkish news media also shared some tips, as did Turkish residents through low-tech means such as graffiti and street posters. Ref. Source 7