Turkey: Google Banned

Turkey and My Foreign Perspectives reports that yet another lawsuit has been filed in Turkey that has resulted in the banning of another web service: Google.com. She adds “Do these silly courts not understand how they impair their people from becoming more educated and doing better business by blocking the very resources needed to build Full Story »

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Joey Baker
1.8
by Joey Baker - Jul. 14, 2009

One graf does not a story make. Even the source article is very short. More importantly, the story gets it wrong. Google.com wasn't banned. sites.google.com was banned. Have no fear, you can still do a Google search in Turkey.

Common journos! Don't just link to articles without going to the source. If you had bothered to read the source article it would have been an obvious error.

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