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The Net Routes Around Censorship In Turkey

Posted by Soulskill on from the working-as-intended dept.

lpress writes: "Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been embarrassed by social media over corruption, vowed yesterday to 'eradicate Twitter.' He followed through by cutting off access, but users soon found work-arounds like posting by email and using VPNs. The hashtag #TwitterOlmadanYaayamam (I can't live without Twitter) quickly rose to the top of Twitter's worldwide trending topics."

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  1. What a fool. by Obijon70 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Haven't these tin pot dictators learned you cant "abolish" the internet? people that want to communicate with each other WILL find a way.

    1. Re:What a fool. by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ... vowed yesterday to 'eradicate Twitter.'

      "In democratic Turkey, Twitter eradicates you, Mr Erdogan!

      I really hope he fails to turn Turkey into an Islamic North Korea.

      --
      Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
    2. Re:What a fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      You must be new here.

  2. Subverting censorship. by Forbo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People ask why I would ever want to run a Tor exit node, this is a perfect example.

  3. A Success of the Internet by Oysterville · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of the places where the Internet truly succeeds is by giving everyone a voice, thereby creating a watchdog effect that mass media has failed at themselves. Granted, not many use their "voice" for a worthy purpose, but those that do may never have been heard if it weren't for this medium.