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The Turkish government has finally lifted its ban on Twitter after a largely unsuccessful attempt at state-sponsored censorship in the run-up to key local elections held last Sunday.

Prime minister Tayyip Erdogans administration blocked the popular microblogging platform a fortnight ago after complaining of a smear campaign when alleged recordings of senior officials making shady deals appeared on the site.

The telecoms authority (TIB) confirmed to Reuters on Thursday that the ban had been lifted, a whole week after an Ankara court ruled in favour of a group of journos and lawyers who complained that the block contravened their "freedom of information and communication.

The ban followed some fighting talk from the PM, who branded Twitter a scourge and said of social media we will wipe out all of these.

He followed the Twitter blockade last week with a ban on YouTube on which site agitators had also posted audio files incriminating his administration.

In the end the Twitter ban didnt appear to have much effect. Just a day after it came into force some social media agencies were measuring a spike in tweets of up to 130 per cent from Turkish users.

Many used TOR or VPNs to get around the ban, whilst Twitter also tweeted several numbers its followers could use to SMS their posts.

A lifting of the ban always seemed likely in light of this, and after president Abdullah Gul declared, on Twitter, that it was unacceptable.

For the record, Erdogans Justice and Development (AK) party took over 45 per cent of the vote at the elections. All El Reg can deduce from this is that either censorship works or there are a lot of Twitter haters in Turkey.

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April 04, 2014

I am writing in response to the recent decision by the Film Censorship Board of Malaysia, as a result of which the latest Darren Aronofsky film Noah has been banned in Malaysia.

Firstly, let me express my deepest dissatisfaction with this highly unjust and shameful decision. It is another ban which is not only wrong and misjudged but also harmful for Malaysia, which tries to present itself as a tolerant and moderate Muslim country.

In fact, another film ban (after the The Wolf of the Wolf Street) is nothing more but just another clear message that Malaysia is a country far from tolerant, where non-Muslims must (on what grounds?) abide by Muslim laws.

As we all know, this is not the case, as one can eat non-halal food in restaurants.

In my opinion, if we accept the Board's ruling, I believe Malaysian law-enforcement authorities, following the logic applied by FCB, will have to close all non-halal businesses in this country: from restaurants serving pork to Beach Club and Chinese liquor shops.

From this point of view, attempts to ban Christians using the word Allah is incongruent with these conservative and exclusive tendencies. But then, please, do not try to convince us, non-Muslims living in Malaysia and the world, that Malaysia is tolerant, moderate and open.

Secondly, let me argue with the Board's ruling and point out, how illogical and harmful this decision is.

As a Christian I do not have to abide by Muslim law. But I cant understand, why am I deprived of the possibility of watching a movie which is not insulting my religious feelings?

If the Board is so concerned about feelings of Muslims, which is in fact its duty, that is all right, however it cant, as a result, limit my freedoms.

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Azly Rahman

Thinking of the still missing Malaysian airplane, contemplating on a Marxist theory of informational diffusion, I came up with these random notes on media oligopoly I am sharing in this weeks column:

Information wants to be free and wishes to leave the shackle of control and the kingdom of officialdom.

Marx once said that whoever owns the means of production owns/controls (re: Vladimir Lenins classic essay on commanding heights,) and control the production of consciousness, and further controls the evolution of the act of knowing and the contents of what is to be known because what is known is produced as artifacts with politics of control structuring them.

CNN, the media empire of Rupert Murdoch, Time-Warner AOL, and media corporations controls the production of what is to be known, albeit appearing to be producing objectivity hidden under the shibboleth of liberal-democracy whilst in essence governed by the hegemony of the tightly-controlled news and informational oligarchic empire of consciousness-production.

This might sound like a (Noam) Chomskyian analysis of the post-modern, post-information age paradigm of media production re: the reporting of the missing MH370. It could as well be a Chomskyian view in need of a further work of deconstructionism.

There are classes of control of knowledge-production and those producing information in the ongoing reporting of MH370.

Those who know the whereabouts of the aircraft, such as leaders of the game, such as presidents and prime ministers playing the role of chief-of-staff of armed forces, etc. in collaboration with the warrior-commander-Kshatriya class and the most elite of the intelligence unit and working in tandem and alliance with military and supra-intelligence allies, the secret must be kept (from Edward Snowden (right) or Julian Assange) as long as the national and international security is safeguarded the plot must be kept intact and the show must go on

Those who know the unsealed part of the story and will be playing the role of making sure the world and the public knows whats happening, in the name of freedom to know and freedom to profit from conflict or even the manufacture of conflict. The philosophy of news-reporting is simple: live and breathe the paradigm of liberal-capitalist informational democracy through sound-bite and blitzkrieg- technologies of cognitive dissonance and funnel in as much as possible issues versus non-issues and speculations and half-truths to feed the four-eyed viewers who are starved for information and drowned in speculations.

Thats the role of the media, whether in America or in Malaysia. The longer one gets glued to the TV, the higher the ratings, the more big advertisers will pour in money.

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Of Marxist media theory and MH370

Media accreditation now is open for U.S. and international news media interested in covering the launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California -- the second of NASA's five Earth science missions to launch in 2014.

OCO-2 is scheduled to launch at 2:56 a.m. PDT July 1 from Space Launch Complex 2 on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. U.S. Air Force policy requires that international media apply for accreditation at least 30 days before the launch.

News media should contact TSgt Vincent Mouzon in writing at 30th Space Wing Public Affairs Office, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., 93437; by phone at 805-606-3595; by fax at 805-606-4571; or by email atvincent.mouzon@us.af.mil.

International media are required to submit full legal name, date of birth, nationality, passport number and media affiliation. Information required for U.S. media includes full legal name, date of birth and media affiliation. A valid legal form of photo identification will be required upon arrival at Vandenberg.

OCO-2 is NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the most significant human-produced greenhouse gas and the principal human-produced driver of climate change on Earth. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. It will map the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time.

The OCO-2 project is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The agency's Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida is responsible for management of the launch vehicle program for the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket.

For more information about the OCO-2 mission, visit:

http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov

For more information about NASA's Earth science activities in 2014, visit:

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George Zimmerman Verdict: Dr. Phil Weighs In
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