Don’t Block the Blog

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Archive for August, 2007

August 27, 2007

DBTB Protests Against the WordPress.com Blockage in Thailand

Barely a few days earlier Turkey had gone through a similar blockage of the entire WordPress.com domain being blocked for Turkish users. Reports are now coming in that Thailand has also sadly scummed to a similar bout of censorship effectively blocking the entire WordPress.com domain for all internet users in Thailand since August 22nd The […]

August 23, 2007

DBTB Condemns Censorship of WordPress.com by Turkey

– ALERT ! – DON’T BLOCK THE BLOG CONDEMNS CENSORSHIP OF WORDPRESS.COM BY THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT Download the PDF Version of the Press Release Don’t Block the Blog would like to express its dissatisfaction at the recent development in Turkey where the Turkish Government has been served with a court order to enforce a blanket […]

August 22, 2007

Petition to Unblock WordPress in Turkey

Mideast Youth has set up an online petition to unblock WordPress in Turkey. Please take a moment to read and sign it.

August 21, 2007

Don’t Block the Blog – Supports Turkish Bloggers

Taking stride from our Don’t Block the Blog campaign that we launched for Pakistan back in march 2006. We would like to show our support for the ongoing problems faced by Turkish bloggers. A Pakistani blogger, Kyla Pasha from Islamabad has been kind enough to whip us a few campaign buttons so that the Don’t […]

August 21, 2007

Turkey Blocks WordPress.com Hosted Blogs

Cross Posted at Teeth Maestro: A few months back in March there was a huge circus surrounding the decision by the Turkish government to block the entire YouTube website as it hosted a video which according to the official government statement was insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Unsurprisingly the same, modern […]