Turkish Gov’t Compares Internet Freedom to Battered Spouses

Juan Cole 02/02/2014

(Via Techdirt)

Turkish Government Says Online Freedom Is Like Violence Against Women (via Techdirt)

As anyone who has been following the news knows, Turkey has been going through a turbulent patch recently. It’s also been trying to control dissenting voices online, as Techdirt has reported. So it comes as no surprise that it is bringing in even stricter…

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Euronews reports on recent protests against increased internet censorship

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page