Istanbul – For Turkish internet users, it’s an image that’s becoming increasingly familiar: at many websites, instead of a homepage, what they find is a short notice telling them the site has been blocked by order of law.
YouTube, the popular video sharing website, has been blocked since May of last year after amateurish clips mocking Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey’s founder, were posted on the site. More recently, Turkey’s two largest gay community web sites were blocked, after authorities accused them of promoting prostitution.
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