[bestbits] Re: [governance] [BBC] Turkey moves to block YouTube access after 'audio leak'

[David Sullivan]

Hi all,

GNI issued a statement Thursday on topic referencing Turkey as the IGF
 host:

https://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/news/turkey-stop-blocking-social-media

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:

https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2014/03/21/escalation-in-erdogans-war-on-online-freedom-of-expression



On Saturday, March 29, 2014, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:

> Dear CS friends,
>
> It's quite uncomfortable to know the recent development of censorship on
> social media by Turkish Government.
> Now YouTube after twitter.
>
> Here's one piece.
>
> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26773702
>
> What's next?
>
> Shouldn't CS people raise our voice to the host country of IGF2014 as soon
> as possible?
>
> NETMundial is important, but this is also very significant to us.
>
> izumi
>
>
>

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