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Turkey Akin to China

China is regarded as one of countries most severely limiting civil liberties and rights through the internet. The global outcry earlier this year over the Google debacle and public debate has the online casino gambling industry, along with several other internet based industries closely watching how China develops internet filters and blocks. But while the global community focuses on China’s censorship Turkey is already effectively blocking thousands of sites, including the online casinos as well as other sites that have seemingly few questionable qualities.

Turkey has more than 4,000 sites filtered and blocked from public consumption in the country. And while there is no tally on what the Chinese government has effectively blocked at this point there is little doubt that the number of blocked sites would be equally as high. Although Turkey instituted these content filters and blocks to stop the online casino gambling industry that original purpose has expanded and the government has the method in place already to easily block sites that the public does not agree with.

In this way, by allowing the content filters to go up for one industry, the online casinos, the Turkish public is facing an information blackout similar to what has happened in China. This is a key fear and one that gamblers are currently protesting against and many Turkish citizens are hoping that more public protests will spur government action to reverse some of the more controversial blocks such as Google Maps, Analytics and other innocuous sites that have little to do with the original purpose for instituting content censors.