Turkey Lifted The Ban On YouTube After Two Years
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Turkey (known officially as the Republic of Turkey) has finally lifted the ban on YouTube after 2 years. Turkey also Banned Video Sharing Website Vimeo recently. YouTube is a popular video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos.
It was started in March 2007, a Turkish court ordered YouTube to be banned for offensive comments about their founding father of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. YouTube faced new ban one after another. Then it was finally completely blocked in Turkey in May 2008, with the blockade lasting more than two years.
Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said the ban has been lifted as the offending videos were removed from YouTube. He said, “…we didn’t get here easily, we have been through a lot in the process. I hope that they have also learned from this experience and the same thing will not happen again. YouTube will hopefully carry out its organization in Turkey within the limits of law in the future,” he said.
YouTube has got an interesting response. YouTube said in a statement, “We want to be clear that a third party, not YouTube, have apparently removed some of the videos that have caused the blocking of YouTube in Turkey using our automated copyright complaint process. We are investigating whether this action is valid in accordance with our copyright policy.”
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YouTube’s response is interesting. They don’t even care.
No country and government can block out the public for long anyway. Whether its turkey, iran, china or north korea. Social media wins.
Hope other countries too unban YouTube. FB,Twitter & YouTube if banned will cause major problems among the youth as they are immensely popular.
for the people in Turkey I hop you enjoy watching the videos at youtube
We can said a lot about politics but the button line is great for Turkey have open the doors to youtube
Hi,
I think big news for YouTube.I hope the people will enjoy YouTube New features.
Turkey has done it at last
people of Turkey wud be contented with this decision and can enjoy YouTube..but still YouTube response was really interesting..Nice Share..
i don’t think that they should do that!!!
ah, this sounds good information….
nice one….
Yeah, the response from YouTube is really interesting. Anyway, good that the ban has been lifted.
what about the ban on your site ??
This is a great day for free speech!
-Love, a canadian
Great respite for Turkey residents i believe! good news
right of free speech and free video is important , guess how many utube videos we share everyday on faceboook , and turks cant see any of them bcoz of the ban