Turkey Bans YouTube for Second Time

Jan 21, 2008

(AP) -- A Turkish court has again blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube because of clips allegedly insulting the country's founding father, according to reports Sunday.



Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Explore further: Review: Google music plan solid, serendipitous

add to favorites email to friend print save as pdf

Related Stories

What the smallest infectious agents reveal about evolution

4 hours ago

Radically different viruses share genes and are likely to share ancestry, according to research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Virology Journal this week. The comprehensive phylogenomic analysis compar ...

Forecast for Titan: Wild weather could be ahead

6 hours ago

(Phys.org) —Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct. Scientists think that as the seasons change in Titan's northern hemisphere, ...

Recommended for you

Review: Google music plan solid, serendipitous

May 23, 2013

Google's new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists ...

Facebook joins Web freedom group

May 22, 2013

Facebook on Wednesday became a full member of the Global Network Initiative, a non-governmental organization promoting Internet freedom and privacy rights.

User comments : 1

Adjust slider to filter visible comments by rank

Display comments: newest first

ShadowRam
5 / 5 (1) Jan 21, 2008
Suppressing Information will soon be a thing of the past, it simply won't be possible to completely keep an entire population in the dark. Hope it backfires on any government stupid enough to suppress the flow of information.

More news stories

Google eyes emerging markets networks

Google has become deeply involved in a series of projects to build and operate wireless networks in emerging markets including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, a report said Friday.

Facial-recognition technology proves its mettle

(Phys.org) —In a study that evaluated some of the latest in automatic facial recognition technology, researchers at Michigan State University were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing ...

Drones may violate international law

(Phys.org) —As President Obama gives a speech on national security—including defending U.S. use of drones to combat terrorism—Leila Sadat, JD, international law expert and professor of law at Washington University in ...

The long road to the 2000-watt society

The vision of a society in which each inhabitant of the earth manages to consume only 2000 watts has already been around for 15 years. During this time, there has been a steady increase in environmental awareness ...

Galaxies fed by funnels of fuel

(Phys.org) —Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws.