Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
June 3, 2014 06:27 pm GMT

Turkey Unblocks YouTube After 2 Months

Erdogan

Turkey has finally restored access to YouTube, 67 days after the government blocked the video-sharing website.

The Turkey's telecommunications authority (TIB) lifted the ban on Tuesday, removing YouTube from the "blocked sites" listed on its website. The move came four days after the country's Constitutional Court ruled that the ban violated Turks' free speech rights and ordered the ban be lifted

See also: 'Twitter, Mtwitter!': Turkish Prime Minister's 9 Craziest Quotes About Social Media

A YouTube spokesperson confirmed to Mashable that the site had been unblocked there.

"We are glad that people and businesses in Turkey can now continue to access and share information on YouTube," the spokesperson added Read more...

More about Youtube, Turkey, Internet Freedom, Us World, and World

Original Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/tprvySqtN0k/

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Mashable

Mashable is the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture.

More About this Source Visit Mashable