Turkey blocks popular Slide website
Here is the news from Reuters,
While initially only the Slide.com home page was affected, in recent weeks the blockage has grown to cover most applications on Slide’s site and inside Facebook, where Slide is the most popular independent provider of applications.
A translation of the Turkish language court order obtained by the company accuses Slide of “harboring pictures and articles that are considered to be insulting to Ataturk,” the San Francisco-based company said on its blog.
Slide said it has hired local representatives in Turkey who have contacted the national government to try to resolve the issue. Meanwhile, the company said it is working on alternative ways for Turkish users to reach its site.
The San Francisco-based privately-owned company offers a popular online program to create picture slide shows aimed at users of social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.
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