Another Upstart Nation State Bans Google
June 10, 2010
I may have to fire up my old copy of XyWrite III+, create a template, and assign standing text to an Alt key. I read “Turkey Bans Use of Google, Services.” If I weren’t so busy with my World Cup paperwork, I would create a chart with such categories as “banned”, “sued”, “threatened”, and probably a couple of other categories.
The most recent nation state to get frisky with Google is Turkey. Long viewed by the US as a cheerleader, Turkey seems to be willing to make pals with certain countries which are annoyed with the United States.
Here’s the passage I noted:
In an official statement, Turkey’s Telecommunications Presidency said it has banned access to many of Google IP addresses without assigning clear reasons. The statement did not confirm if the ban is temporary or permanent….The banned IP addresses include translate.google.com, books.google.com, Google-analytics.com, tools.google.com and docs.google.com.
I thought companies had an obligation to shareholders to maximize returns. Getting in hot water in countries where there are potentially lucrative markets strikes me as losing an opportunity to make money. After the World Cup, I will work through the countries in which Google faces push back. Fascinating that a single company can become the focal point for frequent hassles with nation states.
Maybe this is a trend, not an outlier? A good question in my opinion: “Who is at fault? The country, a politician, a government, a company?” I can hear my seventh grade teacher now: Discuss in less than 250 words. What’s next? Educational institutions?
Stephen E Arnold, June 10, 2010
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Hi There,
I can’t say I closely followed the recent IP banning issues in Turkey. As far as I know they were not intended to ban Google services but they were related to the Youtube ban which has been in place since 2008. Rumour has it that the latest blanket ban was an attempt to respond to the changes in IP addresses of the Youtube service. You can find the rumour here: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/06/04/turkey-not-banning-all-google-services-simply-clumsily-trying-to-block-youtube/
Cheers,
Amaç
Lawmakers are very silly persons.They supposed to block some web sites.But everybody can enter google,youtube etc.Praticaly, nothing banned in Turkiye.Because there’re tons of way to entering blocking sites and whole country know how to use it. e.g. just only change pc dns server ip to opendns ip numbers and everything is allright or you can use proxy programs like netshade or others, and some proxy sites, several dns ip numbers, ghost ways… But if you’re a newbie to pc and you do not know to use any of these ways, your pc will take automatic assigned dns ip, and you’ll be effected ban. However Prime Minister Erdogan watches blocked youtube and suggest peoples to use it and added that people also know how to open blocked sites. Still Turkish users have got high user ratings in these sites.This events occurs because of youtube ip pool complexity with google. And google still do not answer to Turkish government for their tax payments for a long time. Google have got office in Turkey, and they’re not registered as tax subject. Google pay taxes to every country except Turkiye. So, TAX is the center of it. Right now, I enjoy using all google services with high speed, watching youtube, etc in Turkiye.