Turkey blocks popular blogging platform WordPress.com

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The popular, and free, blogging platform WordPress.com has been blocked in Turkey and those who are trying to visit it are seeing this message: “Access to this site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/195 of T.C. Fatih 2.Civil Court of First Instance.”

“I didn’t realize Turkey had a great firewall like China. This is really unfortunate because we have a really passionate Turkish community that gets about 12 million pageviews a month,” the founding developer of WordPress, Matthew Mullenweg, said.

Written bysami ben gharbia

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12 comments

Hakan Çolak

Yaa kardeş baykalla akpyi niye karıştırıyorsun yaa siyasetten uzak duralım diyoruz biraz her yerde karşımıza çıkıyor :(

25 August 2007, 9:34 am

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