14 DAY TRIAL // YouTube Turkey is again available after the largest ISP in the country blocked the service after a court decision. A court ordered the ISP to restrict the access to the video service after numerous users uploaded clips that insulted Turkey's residents and demanded the search giant to remove all the movies from the page. Today, the YouTube ban was lifted because the company managed to remove all the incriminatory videos from the page, the court ordering the ISP to lift the restriction.
"Ahter Kutadgu, head of corporate communications for Turk Telekom, told the Anatolia news agency his company had been notified of a court decision to lift the ban. Kutadgu did not elaborate on the court's reasoning. "As soon as the court decision lifting the ban reached us, we immediately opened YouTube," he said. The Istanbul court that ordered the site blocked on Wednesday had said it would lift the ban as soon as it ascertained that videos insulting Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, were removed," ABC News reported.
As you might know, Turkey considers that insulting a person is illegal so the court ordered the largest ISP, Turk Telekom, to block the YouTube video service because its users uploaded several clips that insulted the residents of the country.
In the past, YouTube was also banned in Brazil because the service published videos with Daniela Cicarelli, Ronaldo's ex-wife and Brazilian model. Daniella filed a complaint against the online video-sharing service, sustaining YouTube published numerous videos without her authorization. Although Google mentioned its employees removed the clips several times but the users uploaded them back, a Brazilian court banned the video service until the company removes all the Daniela movies from the page.