The Mail on Sunday's attempt to provide details -- and presumably to name names -- is what has made its banned article so provocative.
In its published guidelines, the Eco Team bans articles about China's relationship with Taiwan, Tibet, Falun Gong and the Tiananmen Square protests.
But even some other European countries are cool to the idea, fearing that it will lead to trading chaos by allowing a country to ban articles on the flimsiest of threats.
Shortly after news outlets reported the ban, articles about how to circumvent it began to circulate widely, and the hashtags #twitterisblockedinturkey and #turkeyblockedtwitter were among Twitter's trending keywords worldwide.
Activity of this nature, for example, the creation of human embryos for research, is prohibited by Article 18 of the Biomedicine Convention, as well as reproductive cloning being banned in Article 1, paragraph 1 of the PCHB.
Former CIA director George Tenet later testified that, in the years before 9/11, the CIA shipped some 70 individuals to foreign countries without formal extradition -- a process dubbed "extraordinary rendition" that had been explicitly banned under Article 3 of the U.N. Convention.
In banning the articles, he said, he was trying to keep students out of a conflict between staff members and the administration.
Often they banned books or articles altogether.
In the weeks before I got Glass this summer, at least one restaurant banned the device, articles fulminated against it and a parody of its use appeared on "Saturday Night Live".
