Internette Sansür Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme. (Review of Internet Censorship)
Özet
While rapid advances in information technologies have provided people with great opportunities to access
useful information on the Internet , they have also brought about a need to take control of the Internet. Methods of
controlling the Internet have differed from country to country according to socio-economic conditions, religion and
form of governance. Web pages containing child pornography, promoting drugs or suicide and manufacture of
explosives have been banned in Turkey as well as in a good many countries in the world. On the other hand, in some
countries known as “enemies of the Internet” such as China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, Internet prohibitions have
turned into censorship and become alarming. Blockings in Turkey haven’t been called censorship yet but there are
some concerns that in time they can turn into censorship since the scope of law 5651 has not been well defined and
contains some subjective issues like obscenity.
