{"id":76396,"date":"2011-03-16T17:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=76396"},"modified":"2011-03-16T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:02:47","slug":"turkey-lifts-ban-on-googles-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/16\/turkey-lifts-ban-on-googles-blogger.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Lifts Ban on Google&#8217;s Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Chief Prosecution of Diyarbak\u0131r in Turkey decided to lift the access ban to Blogspot.com (owned by Google&#8217;s Blogger). Access to the site and millions of blogs published by the Google sub-service was suspended two weeks ago upon a complaint of the Turkish Satellite Television provider Digit\u00fcrk, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/bianet.org\/english\/freedom-of-expression\/128603-blogspot-access-ban-lifted\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>BIA News Center<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosecution&#8217;s Office for the Investigation of Press Crimes removed the ban to Blogspot.com and related IP addresses on Monday. The decision was based on removing the following Blogspot blogs: sportrhd, trgoals2, freesoccertrhd and izleligtvblog.<\/p>\n<p>It might take a few days though to lift the restriction from all related sites and bring their accessibility back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/04\/googles-blogger-banned-in-turkey-football-row\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">previously reported<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, a court in Turkey issued the ban in response to a copyright complaint by satellite TV firm Digiturk. It brought the complaint when it discovered that some of the matches it was broadcasting were showing up on Blogspot pages.<\/p>\n<p>About 600,000 Turkish bloggers are thought to use the Google tool to publish their personal journals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=blogspot-is-banned-2011-03-02\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Cyber-rights activist Yaman Akdeniz told the Hurriyet news site that the ban<\/strong><\/span><\/a> was a \u201cdisproportionate response\u201d that would inconvenience millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand there is a legitimate concern regarding Digiturk\u2019s commercial rights but banning all these websites will not solve the issue,\u201d he told the site.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Chief Prosecution of Diyarbak\u0131r in Turkey decided to lift the access ban to Blogspot.com (owned by Google&#8217;s Blogger).<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16333,22929,14596,22925,22928,22926,22927,10818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}