[Air-L] Banned in Turkey (was Anglican Ministry in Second Life)

Tue Dec 11 21:33:02 PST 2007

In my personal blog (www.uglydoggy.com) you will see at the top right a 
banner from the GreatWallofChina.org site... they were extremely nice as to 
make that one because I asked for it (before I asked, they just had banners 
for sites that were AVAILABLE in China, but I wanted to use my site to also 
shed light on all the ones not available.... and they acted on my 
suggestion).

Maybe you can get them (now redesigning their website) to include Turkey in 
their site or to help do something similar for Turkey.

In fact Wordpress may (should!) also be interested in raising awareness 
about them being banned there...

My two cents,

Sandra :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ertug Altinay" <realtinay at yahoo.com>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Anglican Ministry in Second Life

> Dear Sandra,
>
> Yes, you are right. Thank you very much. There have
> been other cases in which they banned access to whole
> websites (like Turkish versions of Wikipedia) because
> of one sentence in one article. I suppose, this might
> be the case here.
>
> Yours,
>
> Ertug
>
> --- scbr <scbr at sinectis.com.ar> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ertug,
>>
>> It may be possible that is not THIS site the one
>> that is censored but
>> wordpress, the main site that allows the creation of
>> this and other sites
>> (blogs). Check out if you can access
>> www.wordpress.com and that will let you
>> know if it is this site the one censored or if it is
>> the "hosting".
>>
>> This was what happened in China at some point (not
>> sure if is still
>> happening) with Blogger. They just cut the access to
>> anything in Blogger as
>> a way to cut access to blogs and to the 'national
>> production' of  blogs,
>> therefore of true free press.
>>
>>  Let us know if it is just this site of all
>> wordpress...
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sandra
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ertug Altinay" <realtinay at yahoo.com>
>> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 5:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Anglican Ministry in Second
>> Life
>>
>>
>> > Dear Revd Brown and everyone,
>> >
>> > When I tried to open the link
>> > http://slangcath.wordpress.com/ I realized that it
>> is
>> > one of the thousands of websites that have been
>> banned
>> > in Turkey. The notorious censorship on radio,
>> > television and newspapers has recently started to
>> take
>> > over the net as well. I am very curious about the
>> > content of the website and the possible reasons
>> for
>> > censorship. I have to admit that I also wanted to
>> > share my deep concern.
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> >
>> > Ertug
>> >
>> >
>> > --- Mark Brown <mbrownsky at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Greetings,
>> >>
>> >> I lead the Anglican Ministry in Second Life which
>> >> over a short period of time has grown to 5 church
>> >> services a week and more than 300 members.  It is
>> >> doing something very unusual within the church,
>> >> constructive and effective engagement with the
>> >> internet.  I am looking for someone interested in
>> >> undertaking some research to assist in
>> documenting
>> >> and analyzing this unusual fledgling programme.
>> >>
>> >> For background information see:
>> >> http://slangcath.wordpress.com/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> In Christ,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Revd Mark Brown
>> >>
>> >> http://brownblog.info
>> >>
>> >
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