Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules

Re:Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules by mirimir on Thursday December 26, 2019 @10:51PM (#21889029)

> “One of the sad issues is this: We expressed on every platform since the first day that the process of blocking access to the whole of Wikipedia was unlawful,” Gonenc Gurkaynak, a lawyer representing Wikimedia, wrote on Twitter.

Huh? So does this imply that blocking access to specific Wikipedia articles would be lawful?

That would not be such a reassuring concession by someone representing Wikimedia.

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Re:Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules by raicem on Friday December 27, 2019 @12:41AM (#21889479)

Yeah, it sounds kinda funny.

Turkey used to block Twitter and YouTube, just because of a tweet or a video. But because it causes such a problem for the government, they passed a bill allowing just to block some URLs. Not the whole website. So now, many of the news websites have specific pages that are blocked.

I believe he refers to this.

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Re:Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules by mirimir on Friday December 27, 2019 @12:53AM (#21889515)

Thanks. So it is OK if it's specific.

I guess that's not so unusual, really.

Not that it doesn't suck.

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Re:Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules by bonzini on Friday December 27, 2019 @12:59AM (#21889532)

Yes, there are many countries in which specific articles are blocked, for example when the truthfulness of their contents is challenged in court. Though in that case it's a judge that decides that, not the government.

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Re:Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules by mirimir on Friday December 27, 2019 @02:58AM (#21889864)

I get that they're not executive or legislative.

But they are for sure government.

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Re:Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules by tehlike on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:49AM (#21889673)

Funny you should say that, because a lot of US companies eventually implement filters that follow local censorship.

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Re:Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules by mirimir on Friday December 27, 2019 @02:56AM (#21889859)

Yeah, they do.

I hate it. It's one reason for using VPNs.

But the global takedowns, that really sucks.

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Re:Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules by jyounker on Friday December 27, 2019 @08:21AM (#21891167)

First and foremost they implement US censorship policies.

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