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Turkish government censoring the internet - no access to Soundcloud

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So, I went to log onto my favourite music website today. Soundcloud has a lot of my own music uploaded to it, plus it is a good way to interact with other music-lovers. This is my access to copyright free music that is not commercial and suits my taste. I was shocked but not totally surprised to find the Turkish government have blocked Soundcloud. I used to use Mixcloud, but they blocked that too. Now I am unable to access MY own music or that of my friends.  Music is important to me and what about all those musicians in Turkey that can no longer access their music or fans. I find the situation crazy. Who is to say the Turkish government is not going to restrict Google again? A couple of years ago I had to use the TOR network to access my own business files on Google because the government had clumsily restricted Google DNS. This is what you see when you try and access Soundcloud from within Turkey: Bu internet sitesi  (m.soundcloud.com)  hakkında  İstanbul CBS' nin 

THE CODE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, LAW NO.6331 AND EMPLOYERS’ OBLIGATIONS

THE CODE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, LAW NO.6331 AND EMPLOYERS’ OBLIGATIONS The Code of Occupational Health and Safety Law No.6331 (hereafter it will be referred to as Law no 6331) has entered into force by publishing in the Official Gazette on 30 June 2012. The Law no.6331’s aims are; (i) interfere occupational accidents and occupational illnesses before they happen (ii) locate and remove risks while work is being done in the workplaces and/or prevent new risks before they happen. The public servants, employees, employers, apprentices, whole interns in the workplace, works and workplaces which belong to the public and private, every profession included agricultural professions etc. are subject to Law No 6331. However, Turkish Armed Forces (Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri-hereafter it will be referred to as TSK), security, disaster prevention team, home services, self employed are not covered by the Law no 6331. The Law no 6331 will enter into force; (i) after two years