Turkey Bans Pastebin and Tinyurl

New submitter anonimim writes "Pastebin and Tinyurl have been blocked in Turkey. Pastebin was blocked last week by a court after the hacking of Turkish Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK). Four databases including email addresses and plain-text passwords stolen from BTK were posted to Pastebin last month, in retaliation for the blocking of Blogspot, Incisozluk (a popular Turkish community dictionary) and thousands of other websites. The more shocking ban was that of Tinyurl, a URL shortening service. Turkey currently blocks thousands of websites and is classified as one of the countries under surveillance by the 2012 Internet Enemies report (PDF) published last week by the Reporters Without Borders."

Turkey, meet me at camera 3

[UltimaBuddy]

So, while I gotta respect your unique position at the nexus between cultures, you really don't know what you're doing, do you?

It's shit like this, Turkey. Just... shit like this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_European_Union [wikipedia.org]

Yeah, even 2021 is a bit optimistic.

Citation Needed

[FhnuZoag]

I'm posting this up high so it'll be read.

*Can anyone actually confirm that tinyurl has been blocked in Turkey?*

I'm saying this, because the linked article and the submission doesn't mention Tinyurl (or indeed Pastebin) at all, and Slashdot seems to be the only people stating this news. Is this something that's actually happened or are we spreading false rumours here?