WordPress.com Banned in Turkey
By Henry Neufeld It appears that WordPress.com has been banned in Turkey because of criticisms of Muslim creationist Adnan Oktar. Oktar appears to be an unusually warped version of creationist, and may well be using creationism to foster Muslim fundamentalism.
The reason I’m linking to this is that it is a free speech issue. As a number of commentators have pointed out on the official wordpress.com blog, if folks violate a TOS, it’s appropriate that they be removed, but not for their opinions.
I hope this will all be resolved in favor of free speech.
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Of course this ban is effective only for WordPress blogs hosted at wordpress.com, not for ones like yours and mine which are hosted on our own web space with our own domain names. Perhaps WordPress should be encouraging that route.
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