{"id":266,"date":"2010-06-11T16:38:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T21:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/herdict\/?p=266"},"modified":"2010-06-11T16:38:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T21:38:04","slug":"turkish-president-tweets-his-disdain-for-recent-filtration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/2010\/06\/11\/turkish-president-tweets-his-disdain-for-recent-filtration\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish President Tweets his disdain for Recent Filtration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cbabdullahgul\/status\/15416410313\">tweet<\/a> from Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl on June 4th, he made a direct response to the censorship actions that the Turkish government took to block access to www.youtube.com. In translation, it reads<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;About Turkey\u2019s YouTube prohibition: I don&#8217;t approve of the state&#8217;s blocking of Google categories. Legal channels can be found.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After slowdowns and loss of access started occurring over a variety of Google services in Turkey last week (see earlier blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/herdict\/2010\/06\/04\/google-slowdowns-and-inaccessibility-in-turkey\/\">here<\/a>), this statement, if sincere, gives some hope for a more transparent process regarding internet regulation or deregulation in the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tweet from Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl on June 4th, he made a direct response to the censorship actions that the Turkish government took to block access to www.youtube.com. In translation, it reads &#8220;About Turkey\u2019s YouTube prohibition: I don&#8217;t approve of the state&#8217;s blocking of Google categories. Legal channels can be found.&#8221; After slowdowns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[497,1911,1292],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google","tag-turkey","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LdGs-4i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/herdict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}