Marcin,<br>perhaps you should use this, and blame OSCE (and by proxy your government) of having double standards<br><br><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jVKv3k0Ac_gTtb3xD21oYQ7-ekcQ">http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jVKv3k0Ac_gTtb3xD21oYQ7-ekcQ</a><br>

<br><p>VIENNA
— Turkey should "reform or abolish" its Internet law, which "limits
freedom of expression ... (and) severely restricts people's right to
access information," the European security body OSCE said Monday.</p><p>In
a new report, the Organization for Security and Cooperation found that
3,700 Internet sites were currently blocked in Turkey, including
YouTube, GeoCities, and Google sites.</p><p>"In its current form, Law
5651, commonly known as the Internet Law of Turkey, not only limits
freedom of expression, but severely restricts the citizens' right to
access information," OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklo
Haraszti said.</p><p>While some content, such as child pornography, must indeed be sanctioned, "the law is unfit to achieve this," Haraszti said.</p><p>"Instead,
by blocking access to entire websites from Turkey, it paralyses access
to numerous modern file sharing or social networks."</p><p>Blocking Internet access inside Turkey was "an affront to the public's right to the entirety of the Internet," he added.</p><p>"Additionally,
some of the official reasons to block the Internet are arbitrary and
political, and therefore incompatible with OSCE's freedom of expression
commitments."</p><p>Haraszti said that when he was in Turkey last week to present the report, he was not able to access the OSCE's own YouTube site.</p><p>"The results make the means unjustifiable," he said.</p>

<p>The
OSCE official also complained that Turkish laws failed to protect
freedom of expression and journalists risked imprisonment for carrying
out their work.</p><p>"Therefore 'reform or abolish' the Internet Law
is our main recommendation. I hope that the Turkish authorities will
soon remove the blocking provisions that prevent Turkish citizens from
being part of today's global information society," Haraszti said.</p>



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A piece of bad news:<br>
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<br>
--Marcin<br>
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