Open letter

blocked

Dear Turkish government:

I’m not sure exactly what point you’re trying to make with the intermittent blocking of whatever web sites you’ve chosen to block this week, but stop it. Just stop it, really, it’s silly. It’s annoying having to fire up the proxy every time you can’t handle a little criticism and decide to throw all your toys out of the sandbox. Come on, nobody respects a crybaby— suck it up and show them that you’re better than that. Sticks and stones. Blocking entire web sites when someone says something you don’t like is the internet equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting, “LA LA LA NO ONE EVER SAYS ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT US LA LA LA.” You see how that doesn’t really work?

No, I guess you don’t. But I think you’re going to have to learn soon, if you want to play with the big boys over there on the left-hand side of the map.

4 Comments

  1. 16 May 2008
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    You’d think *someone* would understand how doing this usually calls even more attention to the blocked site. But no.

  2. 16 May 2008
    Reply

    You’d think *someone* would understand how doing this usually calls even more attention to the blocked site. But no.

  3. Matt
    20 May 2008
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  4. Matt
    20 May 2008
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