The Net Routes Around Censorship In Turkey

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."

Comments

What a fool.

[Obijon70]

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

Re:What a fool.

[Anonymous Coward]

If your regime is that sensitive to 140 characters perhaps the problem is not twitter?

Re:What a fool.

[PolygamousRanchKid]

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.

Re:What a fool.

[iNaya]

It's 140 characters, not 140 bytes.

Subverting censorship.

[Forbo]

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

A Success of the Internet

[Oysterville]

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.

Streisand effect

[samuel.progin]

I was not following up closely what was going on in Turkey... The move of trying to cover these allegations brought them up in the spotlight. Wonderful.

Re:Streisand effect

[nomad63]

In Turkish, there is a saying:

In Turkish, "Eceli gelen it, cami duvarina iser." which can roughly be translated as, "The dog, whose time to die come, goes and pees on the wall of the mosque (desecrates the holy grounds, punishable by death in sharia law or something like that).

Mullah tayyip is dropping plunkers in the middle of the prayer hall. But, don;t get your hopes too high, He will defect to US when he no longer is able to suppress all the people in Turkiye, as I feel, an uprising is coming very soon. I believe, him and his children, own property somewhere on the Northeastern part of United States.

DNS block

[Berendho]

He said "I'm going to eradicate Twitter". Then he blocked twitter by changing the DNS on all official Turkey ISPs. I don't know if I should laugh or cry. I think that our own leadership has about the same knowledge of the internet. Any under 30 person could have seen the usefulness of their action. It actually increased traffic to twitter, they broke new user records: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

It is just a DNS block: Change your DNS to 8.8.8.8

[Anonymous Coward]

It is just a simple stupid DNS block.
Change to your DNS servers to Google DNS (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) or OpenDNS (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220, 208.67.222.220 or 208.67.220.222) and everything is back to normal.

People are painting 8.8.8.8 over Erdogans election posters all over Turkey :-)

Classic case of the Streisand effect !

Turkish president circumvented as well

[dutchwhizzman]

The president of Turkey tweeted after the block that it is wrong to block an entire website but that at the most single accounts should be blocked. Considering that the president is a member of the same political party as the prime minister that ordered this, that is about the biggest vote against confidence a prime minister can get.

"I don't care what the international community thi

[Phusion]

I loved reading the comment that whats-his-face was going to "wipe out" twitter and that he didn't care what the international community thought-- he was just asking to get circumvented. Oh well, hopefully we don't see a complete drop in Internet communications for the whole country, like we did in '11-'12. With any luck we'll get less oppressive/corrupt regime's when they learn they can't censor the Internet as well as they thought they could.

Re:This is what you get

[nomad63]

Your ignorance is blinding my eyes. Americans calling Turkiye as Turkey, doesn't necessarily equate the quality of those people to that of a stupid bird. Not untill too long ago, Beijing, the capitol of China was Peking.

Good luck Erdogan

[PPH]

We've been trying to eradicate Twitter for years. So far, no luck.

Unfortunately...

[hyades1]

...this is just a nice little lab that will help the NSA figure out how to pick off the low-hanging fruit when THEY decide they want to put a stop to all that nasty free expression stuff.