Turkish court bans YouTube access. Options

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BBC article

Access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube has been suspended in Turkey following a court order.

The ban was imposed after prosecutors told the court that clips insulting former Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had appeared on the site.

Greek and Turkish youtube users have been submitting insulting videos for a while, for there is a long running rivalry between the two countries. Turkey's law includes an article preventing "insults to Turkish culture", and under a rather strict interpretation of the legal text a Turkish court has ruled in favor of suspending access to youtube.com.

I don't like this a single bit. The law should be meant to set the rules that grant the stability, security, and freedom of the people that live under it. In my opinion, this is a clear case of the law being abused to enforce an arbitrary moral decision on the citizenship, disregarding the objectives of the legal code that I listed earlier.

Boo to Turkey. =|