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Turkey Government Under Fire for 'Net Filter Plans
Users Must Choose One of Four Profiles August 22
Turkey is facing no limited amount of controversy for the country's decision to impose significant new filtering systems that legal experts and civil rights groups say are unconstitutional and violate the right to freedom of expression. Starting on August 22, broadband users in the country will have to choose from one of four filtering packages: family, children, domestic or standard. The list of what's being filtered will be determined by Turkey's Prime Ministry’s Information Technologies Board n(BTK) -- but the lists won't be made available to the public. BTK held a press conference insisting that users didn't have to choose, and that the "standard" filtering option delivers users with the Internet access they enjoy today. However, customers who don't choose are put on the standard profile and BTK has not confirmed whether the standard profile involves any filtered sites (something that can't be confirmed because again -- users won't get to see what's actually being filtered).
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FFH5
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FFH5

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Choice of any filter pkg NOT mandatory says gov't

Turkey's Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) President Tayfun Acarer says that the choice of any filtering package is not mandatory and is strictly optional. IF TRUE, that knocks the pins out from most of the opponents of the filtering options.

»www.todayszaman.com/news ··· ers.html

Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) President Tayfun Acarer on Thursday said Internet users in Turkey will not be obliged to choose one of the filtering options proposed in a new regulation that would go into effect in August.

Acarer underscored that those who want to continue with the standard profile do not have to do anything once the regulation comes into effect on Aug. 22. “If a subscriber wants to choose the ‘Secure Internet Profile,' he or she will have to contact the BTK. Those who choose this profile will be asked to pick one of three sub-profiles available: child, family and domestic,” he said.

Of course, all internet use in Turkey already goes thru ISP firewalls anyway(the std profile), blocking anything the state considers anti-government.

BK
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BK

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Is it the porn again..?

"The debate on the Internet filter heated up after the Telecommunications Directorate, or TB, sent Internet hosting firms a list of 138 words, urging the companies to ban websites that contained any of these words in their domain name. Although the TB said such a request aimed to protect children from exposure to dangerous content on the Internet, experts argued it was illegal."
(from the first linked article)

"dangerous content" meaning porn? Or ...? Where is this coming from? Just filtering to filter?
spectrumhead
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spectrumhead

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Re: Is it the porn again..?

If standard filter is the default one currently, I can easily say that there are a lot of sites including all porn video streaming sites, hacking/security sites and a lot others are stricitly filtered.

There is no access to any porn site today even before August 22.
EdmundGerber
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EdmundGerber

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Say...

...goodbye, secular government!

Like we didn't see that coming a mile away...

N3OGH
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N3OGH

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Re: Say...

This, from a country that aspires to EU membership.

Where's that Picard facepalm image when I need it....

dffgdfg
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dffgdfg

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Re: Say...

it's only a matter of time before it happens here too..

turkey's government has been steering the country away from western-modern-secular values.

today, governments everywhere are scared of `freedom` as we know it... and they do whatever they can to limit it. blocking wikileaks etc..

it's everywhere...
dfxmatt
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Re: Say...

So, which western values is that?

where our government tries to act like the constitution doesn't apply to them, lies to courts, tries to take down wikileaks, fails to understand technology, has rampant bipartisan corruption, or which other part? the "lets mislead people on network neutrality" or the government acting as private censorship police for the mpaa/riaa/uscg? The part of microsoft's ongoing crusade against linux, or our journalists self-censoring at the government's request? While we push our laws on every country and rail on how they respect freedom too much and how that's a bad thing?

the best thing every country can do is ignore everything the US has done over the last 10 years or so completely, and cease to do business with the US under this tyrannical shit.

heat84
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Lost in Translation?

Family, Children, and Domestic? Surely there must be something lost in translation from Turkish. Those mean basically the same thing in English.

Augustus III
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Re: Lost in Translation?

said by heat84:

Family, Children, and Domestic? Surely there must be something lost in translation from Turkish. Those mean basically the same thing in English.

What? Welcome to muslim countries.

Family = the wives and her girlfriends

Children = your heirs, boys. girls go in the above

Domestic = everything including the servants

You are welcome

fatness
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fatness

need more choices

quote:
broadband users in the country will have to choose from one of four filtering packages: family, children, domestic or standard
What about a "slut" filtering package? That one would be popular.

Also, what about filtering packages so people can filter out all political talk except that which they agree with? That would be a biggie, too.

Youth
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Youth

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I'm from Turkey

The "standard" package already includes the sites that are censored right now which basically include all the porn they can find

Evolutionary websites (»richarddawkins.net/) - and Turkey originated sites. Harun Yahya bans those sites with grounds of personal insult - basically people say that the is a cheap charlatan (which is %100 true) using softer words of course and the site just gets banned... How often and how heavy does Harun Yahya insult scientist - do i even need to tell?
He once actually responded to a letter that said "I find the concept of evolution with natural selection fascinating(charming)"
And he said: "That is because they charmed you (you know using real magic"

The ministry's method for picking sites is quite sophisticated : "searching google for porn" - they actually banned one site which belonged to a female student dorm

Turkey has been secular in the constitution only for quite some time now... Where do you suggest I should run to?