{"id":35252,"date":"2011-06-07T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=35252"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:39:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:39:03","slug":"turkish-official-backs-internet-filter-lashes-out-at-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/06\/07\/turkish-official-backs-internet-filter-lashes-out-at-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish official backs Internet filter, lashes out at NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8211; H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35255\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35255\" title=\"turkish-official-backs-internet-filter-lash-out-ngos-2011-06-06_l\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/turkish-official-backs-internet-filter-lash-out-ngos-2011-06-06_l.jpg\" alt=\"Tayfun Acarer complains about the lack of civil-society support for Internet restrictions. AA photo.\" width=\"280\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/turkish-official-backs-internet-filter-lash-out-ngos-2011-06-06_l.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/turkish-official-backs-internet-filter-lash-out-ngos-2011-06-06_l-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tayfun Acarer complains about the lack of civil-society support for Internet restrictions. AA photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A recent plan to force Internet users in Turkey to choose one of four content-filtering packages should be supported by all nongovernmental organizations, a top official said during a meeting Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the NGOs should unite and have one voice, especially on the Internet issues discussed a lot recently,\u201d Tayfun Acarer, the head of the Prime Ministry\u2019s Information Technologies Board, or BTK, said at a conference in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany NGOs voice their difficulties from time to time, but when it comes to highly important issues such as the Internet, they remain quiet,\u201d Acarer said, calling the situation \u201cunacceptable.\u201d He added that all other countries like Turkey care about the ability to control the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing debate on the filtering application is \u201cinaccurate\u201d and politically motivated, Acarer said previously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing this topic to the agenda these days is political,\u201d the BTK chief said, according to an Anatolia news agency report last month.<\/p>\n<p>Under the decision on \u201cRules and Procedures of the Safety of Internet Use,\u201d approved by the BTK in February, Internet users in Turkey will have to choose one of four Internet packages: family, children, domestic or standard. The list of websites filtered by each package will be decided by the BTK but will not be made public.<\/p>\n<p>The change will be implemented starting Aug. 22. \u201cUnfortunately we did not receive the support we expected from NGOs for the Internet measures,\u201d Acarer said, adding that a unified body of Turkish NGOs active in information technologies could help overcome the long-lasting problems of the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to do that, we should all trust in the new system and defend it with complete solidarity,\u201d he said, adding the IT sector also requires standardization.<\/p>\n<p>via Turkish official backs Internet filter, lashes out at NGOs &#8211; Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8211; H\u00fcrriyet Daily News A recent plan to force Internet users in Turkey to choose one of four content-filtering packages should be supported by all nongovernmental organizations, a top official said during a meeting Monday. \u201cAll the NGOs should unite and have one voice, especially on the Internet issues discussed a lot recently,\u201d Tayfun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":35255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845],"tags":[9026,5542],"class_list":["post-35252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scitech","tag-free-internet","tag-internet-filtering-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}