A Free Country?

Last week the Turkish government decided to block all access to blogger.com. They gave no reason for doing so, and in spite of the more computer savy population's outrage, the high court refused to budge. I believe their only rationale was, "It has bad things." You tube has been blocked for over a year now, along with 1100 other websites.

To me, Turkey is like an 11 year old child. She wants to grow up and be like her friends, but she just doesn't know how. Actually, let me rephrase that. She does know how, but she's convinced that her illogical way is best. Yet it's stunting her growth and all her friends who have grown up around her are losing respect for her. Lovely, Turkey. Really wonderful. Please spare the cries of, "We love freedom and democracy!" during your next Republic Day, because they are ringing far too hollow to be taken seriously.

Despite the Turkish high court's fight against freedom of information, there is a proxy server which I use to check otherwise "dangerous" websites. In fact, I think just about everyone knows about this proxy server, which renders the Turkish court's decisions to block websites completely obsolete. So thanks to that, I am still able to access blogger.com and write my scathing posts.

I returned from Wales and England a week ago, and it was lovely. I took some pictures and, as usual, have posted them on my facebook. If you copy and paste the link below you'll be taken to facebook. Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2090833&l=f06a3&id=26310454

Posted by my Aunt Becky from Laos, interesting - which country is supposed to be more free???