Yes! Turkish users get Funwall back as the country uncensors Slide

Venture Beat — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:09:52 -0700

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]