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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.

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    2. Re:What a fool. by iNaya · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's 140 characters, not 140 bytes.

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  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.

  4. It is just a DNS block: Change your DNS to 8.8.8.8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 !

  5. Turkish president circumvented as well by dutchwhizzman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  6. Re:Streisand effect by nomad63 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  7. Good luck Erdogan by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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