Turkey orders Facebook to censor pages that insult the Prophet Mohammed
A Turkish court has ordered Facebook to censor pages that insult the Prophet Mohammed, reports Reuters. The ruling was handed down yesterday with a threat that access to the social network will be blocked if it refuses to comply. The decision, which came at the request of a prosecutor, according to Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT, follows another court ruling earlier this month which ordered news sites that published the cover of Charlie Hebdo featuring a cartoon of Mohammed to be blocked. Turkey has a long record of censoring internet access. Last year, the government temporarily blocked access to Twitter over tweets linking the prime…
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