Turkey Dials Back Plan to Expand Censorship

The government of turkey was trying to issue a set of four state mandated browsing filters for all Internet users in the country of Turkey.  This was met by a lot of criticism from the international community and protesting on the streets of Turkey.  In light of this the government has chosen to back off on implementing these strict standards.  Instead they are making available non-mandatory two content filters for its citizens.  The people of Turkey can choose to use them or to have unrestricted access to the Internet.  Under Turkey's law right now there are over 8,000 websites that have been blocked. The Internet Board that develops policy on the Internet is now in the process of drawing up amendments that would limit the rights of courts around the country to have the ability to block websites.  The withdrawal of the four mandatory Internet filters by Turkey was considered positive but Turkey is still being criticized for the two non-mandatory filters that are still linked to government rule.