Turkey Blocks YouTube, Again

A Turkish court ruled yesterday that telecom authorities must block access to video-sharing site YouTube, due to videos that allegedly insulted Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President Abdullah Gul, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

This same incident happened in March, when Turk Telecom blocked access to YouTube for two days until a petition to the court ultimately removed the ban.

It seems the world of Internet censorship in Turkey hasn’t evolved much in the past few months. Let’s hope another issue like this will get them to consider the topic and draft some legislation to keep it uncensored.