Hi all, <div><br></div><div>GNI issued a statement Thursday on topic referencing Turkey as the IGF host:<span></span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/news/turkey-stop-blocking-social-media">https://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/news/turkey-stop-blocking-social-media</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>In addition, Access had an excellent blog post making this point last week, also noting turkey's role on the netmundial high level stakeholder committee: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2014/03/21/escalation-in-erdogans-war-on-online-freedom-of-expression">https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2014/03/21/escalation-in-erdogans-war-on-online-freedom-of-expression</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Saturday, March 29, 2014, Izumi AIZU <<a href="mailto:iza@anr.org">iza@anr.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear CS friends,<br></div><div><br></div><div>It's quite uncomfortable to know the recent development of censorship on social media by Turkish Government. </div><div>Now YouTube after twitter. <br>
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<div><br></div><div>Here's one piece.</div><div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26773702" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26773702</a><br></div></div><div><br></div>
<div>What's next?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Shouldn't CS people raise our voice to the host country of IGF2014 as soon as possible?</div><div><br></div><div>NETMundial is important, but this is also very significant to us.</div>
<div><br></div><div>izumi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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