Turkey tests new means of Internet control

December 1, 2009 | Source: Foreign Policy

Turkish engineers are working on “the Anaposta,” which would provide email accounts with a quota of 10 gigabytes to all of Turkey’s 70 million citizens at birth, with the email address written on his/her identity card; and a Turkish search engine with better “editorial judgement” than Google (i.e., omit whatever leaders of the Muslim world find offensive).

This is consistent with Article 301 of the Turkish Constitution, which restricts anyone from saying anything that the government deems “offensive to Turkishness.”