Yes! Turkish users get Funwall back as the country uncensors Slide
Slide, the widget-maker that among other things let you create slideshows and share them with your friends on social networks, is now un-banned from Turkey. It was banned in March for “harboring pictures and articles that are considered to be insulting to Ataturk [pictured], the founder of modern Turkey,” as we wrote then.
Its hardly uncommon for social networks to be banned by governments that censor things their citizens happen to share. Many companies are currently banned from being accessed within China, for example. In Slide’s case it “crack legal team” and its decision to delete “the offensive content” got them recently reinstated by the Turkish authorities. Hardly a blow to censorship everywhere, but the company tells us that it “may even have helped to set a new reviews policy inside Turkey.”
A little more on the company blog, here.
[Photo via About.com]
Next Story: NBC and Apple, the tease continues
Previous Story: Q&A: Intel Capital’s Arvind Sodhani explains Clearwire-Sprint deal
About the Author, Eric Eldon
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.