You might have heard that Richard Dawkins' website has been blocked in Turkey because of that moron Harun Yahya (H/T Thabet). Here's the justification:
His press assistant, Seda Aral, said: "We are not against freedom of speech or expression but you cannot insult people. We found the comments hurtful. It was not a scientific discussion. There was a line and the limit has been passed. We have used all the legal means to stop this site. We asked them to remove the comments but they did not."
This isn't that strange of a claim; contemporary Anglo-American and to a lesser extent Continental European (to a greater extent Scandinavia, to a lesser extent France and Germany) attitudes toward free speech and expression are alien to most of the world. They would have been alien to the pre-modern West. They're still alien to the nature of most people even in places like ...
