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It'll get worse, not better: Just watch Turkey
When we consider the censorship activity from China (we know that one) and Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey and other fearing for 'insults' against iconic figures of their past, I expect the Balkanization to get worse, not better.

The outcry at a government level over these actions have remarkably been missing. For example, the European Union is, in principle, against any kind of censorship, by any means. But in the case of Turkey, they tolerate it. Turkey has done several whole-scale censorship actions against WordPress, YouTube and other 'offensive' forums, and we can expect more.

EU acts as a lame duck in the face of these provocations, a failure that only servers to embolden the Turkish administration in its attempt to control Internet contents, and most likely also to take legal action against bloggers and others posting content deemed 'inappropriate' under the dreaded Article 301.
Posted by: henrik@...   Posted on: 04/29/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Language doesn't mean blocked  jfp | 04/28/08
Nothing to worry about here. The sites that would use these domain names  DonnieBoy | 04/28/08
What?  James T. Kirk | 04/28/08
It is about Balkanization of the Internet, and the risk is Microsoft, NOT  DonnieBoy | 04/28/08
If you're gonna spread the FUD...  Wolfie2K3 | 04/29/08
Not the most significant issue.  Anton Philidor | 04/28/08
important enough to bring up  Narr vi | 04/28/08
apology to Anton Philidor  Narr vi | 04/29/08
RE: Is Balkanization of the Internet inevitable?  grujakg | 04/29/08
It'll get worse, not better: Just watch Turkey  henrik@... | 04/29/08
Yes, and we will all be the worse for it  Dr_Zinj | 04/29/08
Phonetic search engines would help...  MV_z | 04/30/08

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