The New Media Congress (NMC) is a national academic event organized every 2 years by the Alternative Informatics Association. It is held each time in a different city of Turkey with a different theme. The event will be held for the 5th time on November 21-22 in Adana. This text

A draft bill related to making amendments on some laws prepared by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services tries to take advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to put into practice new censorship on internet and social media in Turkey. Article 56 of the draft bill suggests

The online education process in all primary and secondary as well as undergraduate and graduate education institutions during the pandemic process has brought along some questions and problems for students, teachers and academics. Teachers and academics have to be part of the online system established by the Ministry of Education

The Free Web Turkey platform, our association being among its constituents, has been established in February 2020 against interventions of censorship and against freedom of expression. Censorship in the internet environment and the number of blocked websites in Turkey has been rapidly increasing in recent years. This also restricts the

On the occasion of the Internet Week (11-24 April 2019) and the 26th anniversary of the arrival of the internet in the country, Turkish civil society organisations focusing on digital rights have released a declaration on the state of the internet. Today, the internet is a part of 4,3

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) attracted widespread attention and comment in recent weeks when it came into force on 25 May 2018. Having taken several years to get from being proposed by the European Commission to entering into force, the GDPR has been designed as a concerted, holistic and

The Turkish government has been heavily critised for implementing censorship on the Internet and other media. Currently, over 100 000 websites are officially blocked in the country. Additionally, popular websites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have been frequently blocked with or without a court order. Other than officially blocking

At the Internet Ungovernance Forum that we organized simultaneously with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held in Istanbul between September 2-5 in 2014, we wanted to take the lead in defending the Internet and creating a space where civil society organizations, activists and the public can make themselves heard. During

The law proposal and its justification, which has been presented to the presidency of the Turkish Parliament by the approval of Justice and Development Party about the change in “The regulation of internet-based broadcasting and the struggle with crimes that are committed via these broadcasting” is a threatening text in

The wave of resistance that started at Gezi Park on the 29. of May in Istanbul and has since spread all over Turkey once again revealed a deep connection between real time communication on social media and social movements. Throughout the protests, social media platforms have become the primary news

The Helplesness of Traditional Media and #direngeziparki #direnankara, #direnizmir: An analysis of the Alternative Informatics Association (Alternatif Bilisim)

The verdict regarding the case about sites.google.com we brought to the European Courts of Human Rights has been declared. As the public opinion may know, the website “sites.google.com” was blocked on June 24th, 2009 due to its content in accordance with the law numbered 5651. Since

In some recent news stories, public opinion was misled by claiming that European institutions supported the "Safer Internet" filtering system of Turkish Telecom Authority (ICTA), and "gave it full grade". In these stories it is told that "INSAFE institution has published a report praising the deployment in Turkey" (1). But