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© Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Turkey moves to block YouTube but attempt fails
By DESMOND BUTLER ISTANBUL©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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mataka
As with the recent move to block Twitter, this is doomed to fail. Erdogan's days are now numbered. And this from a country which wants to join the EU? What a shame for Turkey.
nath
Erdogan IS a Turkey.....
FruitsBasketFan
Turkey banned msn when I visited over there in March 2012.
Serrano
How do governments block websites?
LFRAgain
Tayyip Erdogan is an idiot, not just because he fails to understand how utterly impossible it is to block a site like YouTube, but also because he can't seem to fathom that these kinds of draconian reactions to unflattering information among the public can dly balloon into the kind of protests that brought down the Egyptian government and the former Ukrainian president. Idiot, idiot, idiot.
zaldaus
@LFRAgain
Wrong. Those "kind of protests" are not spontaneous at all, they are orchestrated by U.S. of A. Same with the previous protests in Turkey last year. Erdogan is trying hard to keep his grip on power, and he's by far not the worst leader for the Turks. He's pragmatic, and that's a good thing. But some actions can't really be followed through without a much harsher regime, so in present-day Turkey it won't be possible to block everything he'd like. It'd be healthy for the nation, I'd wager. If all those who fool around on the streets protesting actually went and did some work for a change, Turkey would be much better off.