Las penas del Agente Smith

Tan sencillo como lo que dice el título. El Creacionismo (y su evolución, el Diseño Inteligente) no sólo es un invento deleznable para mentes que no son capaces de asimilar la realidad, también sirve para tener pataletas de consecuencias nefastas:

Unbelievable. Adnan Oktar, aka Harun Yahya, the Turkish crackpot creationist, didn’t like the fact that his critics wrote mean things about him … so he applied to a Turkish court to have all Wordpress blogs blocked. And the court accepted his argument, and no one in Turkey has been able to access anything from Wordpress.com for a day or two now.

El tal Adnan Oktar es todo un figura, efectivamente (llego al enlace desde Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub, que también explica el asunto):

In early 1998, Adnan Oktar and the BAV launched a campaign against Darwinism. Thousands of free copies of Adnan Oktar’s book, The Evolution Deceit, and the booklets based on this book were distributed within Turkey.

BAV also spearheaded an effort to attack Turkish academics who taught evolutionary theory. A number of academics were harassed, threatened and slandered in fliers that labeled them “communists, separatists and Maoists” for teaching evolution. In 1999, six of the professors won a civil court case against BAV for defamation and were awarded $6,000 each.

The court decided that “a severe and unjust attack was perpetrated on the plaintiffs’ personal rights, by listing the names of the scientists defending the theory of evolution and describing them as communists and separatists on the flyers distributed by the foundation.” Professor Ümit Sayın summed up the effect of BAV’s campaign when, in 2005, he said: In 1998, I was able to motivate six members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences to speak out against the creationist movement. Today, it’s impossible to motivate anyone. They’re afraid they’ll be attacked by the radical Islamists and the BAV.

Según el blog oficial de Wordpress.com, la demanda en cuestión es por injurias, y el bloqueo a nivel preventivo. Suena extrañamente parecido a esas historias para asustar a los niños que cuenta mi abuela en las que se secuestran publicaciones de un día para otro aquí en España; habrá que ver hasta dónde es verdad y hasta dónde es pataleta. Lo miraría yo mismo pero mi conocimiento del turco es bastante limitado. En todo caso, esto es lo que dicen el abogado de este hombre:

These defamation blogs contained slanders to some of my client’s friends as well. They also applied Wordpress.com support with their official ID cards and a representative directed them to write to the legal department. So they did but again no response from legal.

So we have become obliged to apply to Turkish judicial courts to stop this defamation executed through your services. By the decision of Fatih 2nd Civil Court of First Instance, number 2007/195, access to Wordpress.com has been blocked in Turkey.

Esto nos pasa, como siempre, por seguir tomando en serio a personas que siguen normas escritas en novelas de ficción. No aprendemos, no.