Why Are Blogspot and Blogger Banned? Free Soccer
Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim has said the government is looking into ways to block unwanted pages of Web sites instead of banning the site as a whole….
Binali’s remarks came in the aftermath of harsh criticism from Turkish Internet users following the banning of popular blog-hosting services blogspot.com and blogger.com. Access to these sites was suspended on Friday in accordance with a decision of the Diyarbakir 1st Criminal Court of Peace. The court later announced that access to these services was blocked upon a complaint by Lig TV, the founding broadcaster of the Turkcell Super League. According to the complaint, the two blog-hosting services were enabling their users to watch soccer matches without any subscription to the TV station.
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