I know I can be an infrequent updater at times, however for once I actually can blame someone else for the delays in my postings. In early March, a Turkish court agreed with a lawsuit filed by a Turkish tv firm that some postings on blogger.com/blogspot.com violated copyright laws when some bloggers were discovered to have broadcast Turkish football matches on their blogs. So naturally, the obvious solution according to the Turkish court was to block both sites! For anyone familiar with the Turkish court system, this shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise, up until October, 2010, Turkey had been blocking Youtube because it discovered videos mocking/attacking the founder of the Turkish Republic, Kemal Mustafa Ataturk (this is part of a larger issue that I will address in another post at a much later date).
Fortunately for me, Koç uses an international server, so after a few days, I am now able to once again log on and add posts. However, I still find it ridiculous, as do many Turks, that an entire website can be blocked simply because of the folly of a tiny minority of members. For those interested in reading more about these recent developments, I have posted two links below:
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