Wednesday, May 04, 2011

You can't say that!

The Turkish government has published a list of some 130 words which cannot be used on the internet there.  Given that it is a predominantly Muslim country, it is perhaps not surprising that the list includes words like "nude", "hot", "gay", "passionate" and so on.  What caught my eye was that the list of forbidden words includes the word "forbidden"!

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