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UPDATE: Turkish President Signs Controversial Internet Law

Posted February 20th, 2014 at 12:23 pm (UTC+0)
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It’s official:  Turkey’s president has signed a controversial new internet law which will enable the government to block select websites and require web hosts to turn over individual browser histories. President Abdullah Gül used Twitter to announce the news Tuesday, and this sparked an immediate Twitter drive by angry Turkish internet users using the hashtag […]

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