Censorship – News – Times Topics – The New York Times

Mar. 27, 2014

Court in Turkey rules that the government of Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot ban Twitter, as it sought to do, and orders countrys telecommunications authority to restore access to the service; action by the government had been met inside and outside the country with an uproar about respect for freedom of expression.MORE

Turkish Journalists' Assn, as well as two experts in Internet law, take legal action to try to overturn a government ban on Twitter, even as government intensifies its efforts to block access to the social media site.MORE

Editorial decries Turkish Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogan's efforts to silence Twitter in effort to eradicate disclosures of corruption and criticism of his regime; holds ban has been ineffective and has made Erdogan target of worldwide social media protest and mockery.MORE

Turkish Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogans ban of Twitter draws international outrage and is defied by thousands of Turks, including Pres Abdullah Gul, who protested--using Twitter.MORE

Turkish government blocks Twitter after social media network is used to spread leaked conversations and documents appearing to implicate high-ranking officials and their associates in widespread corruption investigation; shutdown occurs 10 days before local elections.MORE

Russian authorities block three websites and blog, including platforms used by opposition leaders Aleksei A Navalny and Garry K Kasparov, saying sites encourage illegal activities; move follows appointment of pro-Kremlin journalist to lead independent Russian news site Lenta.ru after site published interview with Ukranian nationalist organization.MORE

Op-Ed article by Google executives Eric E Schmidt and Jared Cohen outlines challenges of confronting Internet censorship across the globe; contends that technology to defeat censorship exists, but making it available to everyone requires more money and attention from private companies and governments.MORE

Turkish Pres Abdullah Gul says he will not go along with Prime Min Recep Tayyip Erdogan's pledge to shut down Facebook and YouTube following local elections; thousands in Ankara and Istanbul have taken to streets to protest Internet restrictions and corruption in the government.MORE

Op-Ed article by Prof Wendy Doniger submits India's banning of her book The Hindus: An Alternative History on blasphemy charges has had unintended effect of highlighting problems posed by country's blasphemy laws; says ban points to outsized influence of Hindu fundamentalists in Indian political discourse; holds book defends forgotten aspects of Hinduism, while fundamentalists are in essence attacking their own religion.MORE

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