Turkish court lifts YouTube ban after online censorship protest

A court in Turkey has lifted a ban on YouTube, the video sharing website, after hundreds of sites voluntarily blocked themselves in protest at growing internet censorship.Access to YouTube had been blocked since May in the latest of a series of bans triggered by the posting of videos deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the modern Turkish state.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/26/turkey.youtube

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