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bonjurkes · 07-26-2010, 08:59 AM

So, just few things to clear up the issue.

Yeah, Youtube is banned at Turkey, and the first reason was insulting videos about Ataturk, and after that it turned that our government wants Google to open an office at Turkey, something like local Google HQ, so they can fu.k up their brains if they do something that over government doesn't really like. After that insulting video situation, they announced that Youtube denied to remove those insulting videos and that's why it's banned. But then it turned out that because of Adwords program, Google is earning quite a lot of money from advertisers but in return they don't pay it's tax to government.

So nowadays government saying Google that, if they pay the required taxes and i dont remember the amount, but it's quite high amount i believe, and open a Google HQ at Turkey, they will remove the ban of Youtube.

Anyways, there is something like 3 or 4 thousand sites blocked and main reason is porn, most of those illegal tube sites, including some legal sites among Youtube. Yeah i know it's really shitty situation and there is some protests going on about it here, and no one is happy about it.

But, Youtube is 3rd most viewed site in Turkey, so just think how effective is the ban. Most of the people already knows the solution how to bypass blocked sites and reach them. Most popular ways are changing DNS, and editing host files of windows to write ip's of the sites that are blocked.

And recently, there was another shitty situation that some other Google services are blocked because Youtube changed their ip, and our government decided to block access by banning youtube ips, but it caused other google services to get banned because they use the same ip. And when people complained about this, the answer was " it is google's fault that they are using same ips for all of their services".

So it's really fucked up situation.

07-26-2010, 08:59 AM
bonjurkes Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 17	So, just few things to clear up the issue. Yeah, Youtube is banned at Turkey, and the first reason was insulting videos about Ataturk, and after that it turned that our government wants Google to open an office at Turkey, something like local Google HQ, so they can fu.k up their brains if they do something that over government doesn't really like. After that insulting video situation, they announced that Youtube denied to remove those insulting videos and that's why it's banned. But then it turned out that because of Adwords program, Google is earning quite a lot of money from advertisers but in return they don't pay it's tax to government. So nowadays government saying Google that, if they pay the required taxes and i dont remember the amount, but it's quite high amount i believe, and open a Google HQ at Turkey, they will remove the ban of Youtube. Anyways, there is something like 3 or 4 thousand sites blocked and main reason is porn, most of those illegal tube sites, including some legal sites among Youtube. Yeah i know it's really shitty situation and there is some protests going on about it here, and no one is happy about it. But, Youtube is 3rd most viewed site in Turkey, so just think how effective is the ban. Most of the people already knows the solution how to bypass blocked sites and reach them. Most popular ways are changing DNS, and editing host files of windows to write ip's of the sites that are blocked. And recently, there was another shitty situation that some other Google services are blocked because Youtube changed their ip, and our government decided to block access by banning youtube ips, but it caused other google services to get banned because they use the same ip. And when people complained about this, the answer was " it is google's fault that they are using same ips for all of their services". So it's really fucked up situation. Last edited by bonjurkes; 07-26-2010 at 09:00 AM..