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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
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YouTube has removed all of the offending videos that led a Turkish court to order that YouTube be banned from the country earlier this week, and the ban has been lifted.

This sets a terrible precedent for YouTube, who should have stood their ground. The original videos were sophomoric jabs at Turkey from Greeks, none of which should have led to a ban in the first place. For YouTube to agree to remove the videos shows that they’ll be soft on these issues in the future, and it will lead to a never ending series of headaches for the company. This is also yet another blow to freedom of speech in Turkey.

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