Turkey Blocked Access to Wikipedia

[mr moose]

26 minutes ago, N3v3r3nding_N3wb said:

Heck, a very large chunk of the news in Western nations is very, very often unreliable.

 

Understatement!    Especially when they are reporting on health science, you can be guaranteed they have hyped up the most trivial part of a study (becasue it's popular or controversial) and not even mentioned the conclusion, type of study or any qualifiers relevant to their audience.

[captain_to_fire]

5 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: welcome to the Middle East.

It's basically theocratic bullcrap from Erdogan

[Serin]

Theocratic dictatorship gonna do what a theocratic dictatorship gonna do.
I feel quite sad for the secularists who were until recently beginning to have a voice in Turkey. I hope we in the west can welcome them if they flee.

[Misanthrope]

Turkey seems to be on a fast track to become a shitty Saudi Arabia clone: Western endorsed fucking savagery.

[SurvivorNVL]

Erdogan needs to just take the leap to ban the internet.

[Richtofen_]

3 hours ago, Artechz said:

Not only to the wikipedia definition of turkey (word/country).

I didn't say about the definition of the word/world Turkey.

3 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Is that a reason to block a website altogether?

This site can be unreliable in information due to the fact that anybody can post info here. So, LTT forum blocking coming soon?

Yes, it can be a reason. If Turkey wants their people to use credible sources, fine by them. They honestly decide what websites they want to block.

And this isn't a info website at all. I thought this website was just to discuss technology.

[Richtofen_]

3 hours ago, N3v3r3nding_N3wb said:

Just because someone is unreliable, or even outright lying, doesn't mean that he/she should be censored. The same goes for companies. If they lie, their standing and reputation in the public's eye will be diminished, but it doesn't mean that the government should censor them. By your logic, the government should put a ban on conversation because people can spread misinformation and extremist ideas through speech. Heck, a very large chunk of the news in Western nations is very, very often unreliable. It isn't censored.

I didn't say just because someone is lying should be censored. It is their decision to. And no, government should not ban conversations. 

[N3v3r3nding_N3wb]

12 minutes ago, Richtofen The Hyena said:

I didn't say just because someone is lying should be censored. It is their decision to. And no, government should not ban conversations. 

You said that "they have a reason," which gives the impression that you don't disagree with their actions, especially because you went on to defend their reasoning and attempt to give logic behind it.

What do you mean, "It is their decision to."? It was also their decision to carry out the Armenian Genocide. Does that make it right, or even defendable?

[LeChef]

please fix 

[Orangeator]

15 hours ago, mr moose said:

If you're like me and revel in the social sciences this might be an interesting read for you:

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=0ahUKEwjz0NzIlM3TAhXKnpQKHVYLC1c4ChAWCC8wAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.457.1402%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&usg=AFQjCNHhMSn4xjCNWT6En0oBQl0MhS5e3w&cad=rja

That was a very interesting paper to read, thanks for the share. That really gives me a different prospective on why Wiki is successful/even a thing.

Edit: OP please fix the quoted text so night themed users can read it without having to highlight the text lol.

[N3v3r3nding_N3wb]

23 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

That was a very interesting paper to read, thanks for the share. That really gives me a different prospective on why Wiki is successful/even a thing.

Edit: OP please fix the quoted text so night themed users can read it without having to highlight the text lol.

 

1 hour ago, RikvE said:

please fix 

I only know how to do it on desktop. I'm at school now, so I won't be able to fix it now. I won't be able to for 11-12 hours, probably.

 

I clicked "remove formatting" when I pasted it in. Does that not work on mobile?

[yian88]

the real reason https://hiddenlolcdn.com/i/143680.jpg

[Dylanc1500]

45 minutes ago, yian88 said:

the real reason https://hiddenlolcdn.com/i/143680.jpg

All this time and we just needed to call The Orkin Man.

[WMGroomAK]

Fairly sure that Ataturk is rolling over in his grave over the political changes that have happened in Turkey in recent years...  It's kind of sad that a lot of these policies appear to go directly against the kind of country he worked to establish.

[TidaLWaveZ]

On 4/30/2017 at 2:23 PM, N3v3r3nding_N3wb said:

Well, it has to do with the internet and internet freedom. That's why it's here and not off-topic.

And because something of this caliber is a pretty big deal as it could be the first step in deciding what is considered "truth" by a country at whole.

 

The administration of a given country could start limiting internet access to information that they want the population to believe in, thus controlling mass belief and opinion.

[mr moose]

7 hours ago, Orangeator said:

That was a very interesting paper to read, thanks for the share. That really gives me a different prospective on why Wiki is successful/even a thing.

Edit: OP please fix the quoted text so night themed users can read it without having to highlight the text lol.

There are also many studies done by universities and phd students into the efficacy of wikipedia.   I am trying to find it, but there was one where they intentionally changed a random number of wiki pages across all different topics and then timed to see how long the information would take to be corrected.  The longest from memory was 1 day.

[LeChef]

18 hours ago, N3v3r3nding_N3wb said:

 

I only know how to do it on desktop. I'm at school now, so I won't be able to fix it now. I won't be able to for 11-12 hours, probably.

 

I clicked "remove formatting" when I pasted it in. Does that not work on mobile?

apparently not.

[F7GOS]

If our place of work blocked Wikipedia, half the graduate Engineers would implode into tears...