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Turkey to lift Twitter ban after court order

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/26/5549010/turkey-twitter-ban-halted-by-court

 

A Turkish court has ordered its government to lift the statewide block on Twitter that it imposed last week after tweets began spreading linking the prime minister to a corruption scandal, the AFP reports. Access to Twitter is reportedly expected to be restored later today; it's been blocked since March 20th, though many found ways around the ban even thereafter. The Associated Press reports that the court has only issued a temporary injunction against the ban, so it's unclear if Twitter access will remain restored, should the blockade be lifted.

 
Turkey's government initially placed the ban as protests rose and a corruption scandal began to embroil the government just days before an election. Blocking Twitter has only brought more negative attention since: the block was the subject of further acts of protest and was condemned by the United States and United Nations Human Rights office, among others. "As the General Assembly recently affirmed in November 2013, the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online," Human Rights office spokesperson Rupert Colville said at a press conference.

 

this is some good to hear after yesterdays s***storm, lets hope this doesn't happen again and the lift to stay permanent

 

edit: this is a repost first post here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/131955-turkish-courts-in-ankara-lifts-ban-on-turkey/ i reported this thread (this one not the linked one) by now just an FYI

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It was in offtopic though. 

This belongs in News

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beaten by 10 mins oh well ill report myself to merge, din't check off topic

this is one of the greatest thing that has happened to me recently, and it happened on this forum, those involved have my eternal gratitude http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/198850-update-alex-got-his-moto-g2-lets-get-a-moto-g-for-alexgoeshigh-unofficial/ :')

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It was in offtopic though. 

This belongs in News

but those were 1st hmmmmmmm maybe mods could move them

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