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Turkey Heightens Twitter Censorship with Mandated IP Blocking

Posted by timothy on from the until-tomorrow dept.

The Net may have briefly routed around Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan's DNS-based anti-Twitter censorship, but the minister's next move has been to mandate that Turkish ISPs block Twitter's assigned IP addresses. Reports Ars Technica: " This move essentially erases Twitter from the Internet within Turkey—at least to those people who don’t have access to SMS messaging, a foreign virtual private network or Web proxy service, or the Tor anonymizing network. 'We can confirm that Turkey is now blocking the IP addresses of Twitter after the previous DNS blocking technique proved ineffective,' said Doug Madory, of the Internet monitoring company Renesys, in an e-mail to Ars. A Turkish government webpage shows that there is an IP address block order in effect for 199.16.156.6, the primary IP address for twitter.com."

102 comments

  1. Gee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Didn't see that coming.

  2. Whack-a-mole by Rinisari · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And now, if Twitter wants to, it can make Turkey play whack-a-mole by moving IPs every time one gets blocked...

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    Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
    1. Re:Whack-a-mole by mysidia · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And now, if Twitter wants to, it can make Turkey play whack-a-mole by moving IPs every time one gets blocked...

      Perhaps someone can persuade Twitter to get a cloudflare account, and use GeoDNS to send Turkey users to some IP addresses shared by a large number of legitimate websites, in order to maximize the amount of collateral damage Turkey will inflict if it keeps attempting to ban Twitter by blocking IP addresses.

    2. Re:Whack-a-mole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ha. no.

      There is a much cleaner solution that Turkish citizens have been using to stream Youtube videos forever. (Whack a mole of anonymous proxy servers)

      This might actually be a litmus test to see how much a "democratic" government can push it's citizens around. AFAIK Turkey is the least theologically strongarmed Muslim country in the world. (eg, they treat their citizens with at least as much contempt as the US, Ireland and Italy do.)

    3. Re:Whack-a-mole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And now, if Twitter wants to, it can make Turkey play whack-a-mole by moving IPs every time one gets blocked...

      Only if they would give a shit about their site being banned in Turkey, which is not how most bussinesses operate. Remeber when the "don't be evil" company agreed to filter their results in China?

    4. Re:Whack-a-mole by GbrDead · · Score: 1

      I don't think Erdogan cares about collateral damage.

    5. Re:Whack-a-mole by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      Erdogan doesn't really give a fuck if you block cnn, bbc and others.

      for him it would be a benefit.

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      world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
    6. Re:Whack-a-mole by neonKow · · Score: 1

      I am not an expert, but my understanding of GeoDNS is that you would still have to own those IP addresses (at least in Turkey) to make that feasible. It doesn't seem like it would be that easy to clobber legitimate website's IP address.

  3. fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    DNS? IP's? at this rate it will be years before they get to the point where they can block it in any meaningful way

  4. Good luck with that. by pla · · Score: 2

    Well now! That should buy them a whole five minutes of government-mandated third-worlditude. Good job, boys!

    Remember, if they outlaw Twitter, only outlaws (and the Turkish President... And... Okay, just about everyone) will have Tweets!

    1. Re:Good luck with that. by jc42 · · Score: 1

      So does this mean I'll have to finally get a twitter account, in sympathy and solidity with Turkish "outlaws"?

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      Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
  5. Those who refuse to learn by mudshark · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cue the reverse proxy mirror sites in 3...2...1

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    In other news, astrophysicists have announced that they now know what all that dark matter is: it's stupidity.
    1. Re:Those who refuse to learn by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Informative

      It also caused a huge jump in VPN signups. http://torrentfreak.com/turkey...

  6. The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile by bazmail · · Score: 5, Informative

    What an embarrassment of a human being that guy is.

    As well as being corrupt as all hell hes trying to stop people talking about it in the most clown-fuck stupid way. Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan I am embarrassed to be a part of the same species as you.

    1. Re:The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 5, Interesting

      And he rules the most advanced part of the Middle East. Besides tour groups carefully shepherded around the Valley of Kings by Egyptian soldiers Turkey is the one part of the area that tourists actually want to go to. Great job destroying your one decent source of revenue. Erdogan seems intent on undoing the work of Kemal Ataturk and bringing back the seventh century.

    2. Re:The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile by cold+fjord · · Score: 2

      That may be, but he is PM, isn't he? And don't be surprised if he gets reelected. He has plenty of supporters. There are growing numbers of people in Europe with views similar to his.

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      much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
    3. Re:The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      I'm a human being and I resent being lumped together with something like that! I kindly ask you to take that statement back!

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    4. Re:The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Erh... no. Turkey was way more "western" shortly after Ataturk turned it towards the west than it is now after a few years of rule from this old, backwards man. He pretty much did everything in his power to turn back time in Turkey, undoing so much progress that it hurts to watch how this beautiful and so promising country has to suffer from that regime.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    5. Re:The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile by Opportunist · · Score: 0

      Communism is the dictatorship of the proletariat, democracy is the dictatorship of the proles.

      Sadly I don't really have a better idea for a government. Except maybe that we should put "you have to be at least THIS intelligent to vote" signs in front of election booths, similar to amusement rides and height.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    6. Re: The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Islamists are shittier

    7. Re:The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      What's a "real Turk"? The Bosporus version of a "real Scotsman"?

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    8. Re:The Turkish PM is a fucking imbecile by kwbauer · · Score: 0

      Communist, Islamist... there is no difference in practical terms. They pray (or not) to different gods and they talk about different things but the end result for the "citizen" is pretty much indistinguishable.

  7. Hello Recep, meet Tor by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2

    What does he think he's going to achieve with that? More people will get smarter on the internet and in the end, his state's ability to spy on its own citizens will suffer.

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
    1. Re:Hello Recep, meet Tor by houstonbofh · · Score: 1

      And gues what happend with VPN services over the last few days? http://torrentfreak.com/turkey...

    2. Re:Hello Recep, meet Tor by scarboni888 · · Score: 1

      WEll he's got to do something, hasn't he? Otherwise he'll be seen to be doing nothing.

    3. Re:Hello Recep, meet Tor by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Well he's got to do something, hasn't he? Otherwise more people would hear the corruption allegations.

      Because that's the actual reason for the twitter ban. Twitter has been used time and again to publish various recordings of phone calls Erdogan allegedly made concerning how to move money "out of the way". Of course he's not really fond of those being published and circulated.

      Maybe he should ask Mrs. Streisand how trying to silence stuff worked for her.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  8. Censorship requested by people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Source, google-translated:
    The people asked for the ministry that on twitter, laws are broken (insults, privacy laws etc).
    Twitter was contacted by the ministry and did nothing, so a court ordered that the only way to preserve Turkeys peoples right is to block twitter.

    1. Re:Censorship requested by people by Kojiro+Ganryu+Sasaki · · Score: 0

      So if the people says we gotta kill dem jews then the government should refurnish some shower rooms and stock up on poison gas.

    2. Re:Censorship requested by people by dnaumov · · Score: 2

      Source, google-translated:
      The people asked for the ministry that on twitter, laws are broken (insults, privacy laws etc).
      Twitter was contacted by the ministry and did nothing, so a court ordered that the only way to preserve Turkeys peoples right is to block twitter.

      This is not how the internet works. You don't get to dictate what a service provided by a company located in another country does or does not offer. And the sooner your realise that your futile attempts to "erase" said service from "your internet" by various blocking methods, the faster you stop making a moron deserving utter humiliation out of yourself.

    3. Re:Censorship requested by people by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1

      "You don't get to dictate what a service provided by a company located in another country does or does not offer. "

      This privilege is reserved for the French, who with much better technology have been equally unable to make Net censorship work.

    4. Re:Censorship requested by people by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Funny

      This is not how the internet works. You don't get to dictate what a service provided by a company located in another country does or does not offer. And the sooner your realise that your futile attempts to "erase" said service from "your internet" by various blocking methods, the faster you stop making a moron deserving utter humiliation out of yourself.

      Are you talking to the Turks, or US Media companies?

    5. Re:Censorship requested by people by Luckyo · · Score: 1

      When you control law enforcement, it's pretty easy to terminate any domestic sources. And as China has shown, it's not difficult at all to "erase a service from internet". The tiny minority that knows how to circumvent the measures is irrelevant, as your target is the masses.

    6. Re:Censorship requested by people by eyrieowl · · Score: 1

      China has built a very sophisticated and complex operation with tons of controls to "erase a service from the internet". There's nothing simple about it...I highly doubt Turkey has the ability to put in place anything like China's operation any time in the next 5 years.

    7. Re:Censorship requested by people by Luckyo · · Score: 1

      Developing IT infrastructure is and extensive process.

      Cloning it after it's been developed is cheap and fast.

    8. Re:Censorship requested by people by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1

      It always is, though. Back in 30s, in Stalinist USSR, before some bigwig was dragged to Lubyanka cellars only to emerge with a hole in the back of his skull, there was usually a "letter from angered workers and peasants" posted on the title page of Pravda, which demanded that the Party show strength and determination by killing the traitorous vermin etc.

  9. IPv6 needed by jonfr · · Score: 2

    It is clear that twitter and other such websites need to move into IPv6 space to avoid censorship. Twitter is not on IPv6 today.

    ping6 -c 4 twitter.com
    unknown host

    1. Re:IPv6 needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It is just as easy to block a host by the upper 64 bits of its IPv6 address as it is to block a host by its IPv4 address. You get a bazillion addresses with your IPv6 allocation, but it's actually easier to block you on IPv6, because all your addresses are contiguous, whereas it's not unusual to have multiple discontiguous allocations of IPv4 addresses. That is one of the reasons for the big address space: To be able to give everyone more addresses than they will ever need so that nobody needs to get a second allocation, thus keeping the routing tables small.

    2. Re:IPv6 needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      That would not achieve anything. IPv6 addresses are not encrypted and they can still be blocked.

    3. Re:IPv6 needed by jonfr · · Score: 1

      While that is true to some extent. It is also the amount of IPv6 addresses out there. I doubt Turkey or anyone for that matter can block all of the IPv6 address all the time. The block file would be huge if it was to be done. I am also not sure if current censorship software supports IPv6 blocking. It might do so already, but I don't keep up with those things.

      Twitter can get its own /32 range. That is a lot of IPv6 addresses to have. Even if you just use one /64 block at the time. Maybe we need 512-bit IP address space (that way above massive IP address space) to prevent censorship for good.

    4. Re:IPv6 needed by houstonbofh · · Score: 2

      I doubt Turkey or anyone for that matter can block all of the IPv6 address all the time. The block file would be huge if it was to be done.

      I think you are unfamiliar with something called summary routes. https://learningnetwork.cisco....

    5. Re:IPv6 needed by petermgreen · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Twitter can get its own /32 range.

      And that whole range can be blocked in one go.

      What matters for avoiding blocks is not merely having lots of addresses, it's having lots of addresses spread out through the address space so that people can't effectively block you without either causing massive collateral damage or painstakingly hunting down your addresses.

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    6. Re:IPv6 needed by unixisc · · Score: 1

      Don't IPv6 packets get encapsulated in IPsec? That seems to suggest that they are indeed encrypted.

    7. Re:IPv6 needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      No, IPsec is an end-to-end encryption scheme. To route any packet - whatever the protocol - there needs to be addresses. If you encrypt addresses then intermediate routers cannot send your packet anywhere. So even if you are tunneling with IPsec you have to wrap it all up in another IP packet - with addresses for the router.

      Not sure how you got a score of 2.

  10. Help out their dissidents by Nimey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Follow these directions to set up Tor obfuscated bridges and give them a path around the censorship:

    https://www.torproject.org/pro... (if you run Debian or Ubuntu)
    https://www.torproject.org/pro... (more generic instructions)

    More information in this email the Tor project sent out last year, including how to make an unpublished bridge that's harder to censor:
    https://lists.torproject.org/p...

    --
    Hail Eris, full of mischief...

    E pluribus sanguinem
  11. Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by gtall · · Score: 5, Interesting

    King Abdullah of Jordan had this to say of Erdogan: “Erdoan once said that democracy, for him, is a bus ride,” King Abdullah said. “‘Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off,’ [Erdoan said].”

    The King saw little difference between Erdogan and Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and considered Erdogan to be a softer version of Morsi. Of Morsi, he said Morsi had no depth. Now it appears Erdogan has little depth as well, attempting to ban Twitter will only advertise it for Turks.

    Right now, Erdogan is favored to win the next election, but how will the Turks feel in a few years when they realized they got off the democracy bus along with Erdogan.

    1. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Insightful

      but how will the Turks feel in a few years when they realized they got off the democracy bus along with Erdogan.

      Sadly, they will elect him as the one who most represents their view of the world. It just shows how poorly democracy works when you have widespread ignorance. The same thing happens in the US, though we fell into a two-party system that forces people to get under the same tent.

      RICH PEOPLE: Free, compulsory, quality education for the masses is for YOU, not them. Please stop fighting it. Thank you.

      --
      W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
    2. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by SternisheFan · · Score: 2

      Since the elections come up in less than a week from now, I'm cooking up my popcorn.

    3. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This must be black spots on the sun. Our Vladi does Putirendum on Crimea and sends tanks all over, This bitch Clinton compares him with Hitler, in Syria this asshole who is at power there annihilates his own country in Egypt and other north African countries democracy and human rights had a nice day a lots of water flew in the Nile since, Chinese want to have a fight with Japanese over some small piece of rock, the Poles want to invade Russia with all 3 cavalry units. From all only Brits behave at least so it seems - they course aloud but at least the Downing Street knows it better and is not going to do much (says leaked memo). From all these asshats in the West and in the East I thought Turkey was going its own easy way especially after the Highland Turks i.e. Kurds wanted to give up the military struggle but now not even Turkey is saved from the radiation. Maybe the flare last year did not miss earth at all?

    4. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      , but how will the Turks feel in a few years when they realized they got off the democracy bus along with Erdogan.

      Most will be happy, because the majority doesn't want a secular democracy. Then there will be a minority that will try to revolt, only to be crushed time and time again.

      I've traveled inside Turkey for long enough to know it's the armpit of Europe.

    5. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by Luckyo · · Score: 2

      You appear to be under a naive misunderstanding that ignorant masses are something that elite does not want.

      This opinion is in a direct conflict with all known human history.

    6. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      It's not in Europe, thankfully.

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    7. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by MightyYar · · Score: 2

      I'm suggesting that the elite are short-term thinkers and perhaps poor students of history. Thus my all-caps plea to rich people.

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      W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
    8. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It will go stale by then =(

    9. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by unixisc · · Score: 1

      The Kemalists seemed to be under the delusion that they are. Whereas the bulk of the population is more connected to their Turkestani, Seljuk & Ottoman roots. Erdogan now is more interested in leading the Islamic world, where he's more likely to succeed due to Iran being Shiite, Saudi Arabia being weak, Egypt being unstable and there being 5 (potentially 6) Turkic countries in the Muslim empire - Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Potentially, Xinxiang as well, if the Uyghur jihadis get their way.

    10. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by zymano · · Score: 1

      You seem really worried. Tell us why? Most Americans could give a shit.

    11. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by zymano · · Score: 1

      You gonna cry?

    12. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by zymano · · Score: 0, Troll

      That's why there are elections. Thank you for your input 'idiot'.

    13. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by zymano · · Score: 1

      Kemalists are morons.

    14. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1

      Kemalists were not under any such delusion - they were gradually moving the country into Europe, not assuming that they were already there.

    15. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by Hognoxious · · Score: 2

      they were gradually moving the country into Europe

      Won't that block the Phosphorus (or the Hesperus, whatever it's called)?

      That'll make the Black Sea overflow.

      --
      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    16. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Also, appealing to elites is futile. Nothing is going to change unless the ignorant masses learn not to want elites. But apparently twitter mivitter and facebook shmacebook are just not important enough for the majority of Turks.

    17. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by dkf · · Score: 1

      Kemalists were not under any such delusion - they were gradually moving the country into Europe, not assuming that they were already there.

      So they're responsible for the North Anatolian Fault? Much is explained.

      --
      "Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
    18. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by Luckyo · · Score: 1

      Of course they aren't. Most Turks are rural people. Their main concerns are purity of Islam in Turkey and next crop season.

      Euronews just aired a clip on pro-Erdogan demo, people were shown as saying to camera that Ergodan hasn't gone far enough, and that he should ban the entire internet in the country if "they continue to insult our prime minister".

    19. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by SternisheFan · · Score: 1

      You gonna cry?

      If freedom of the internet loses another notch, yes, I might shed a tear over that, it would "suck". I've cried over less.

      He's trying to get re-elected. Maybe blocking free speech is a tactic that will win it for him in his country, I don't know, hence the curiosity and the popcorn popping. I'm curious to see if his 'strategy' works out for him or not.

    20. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      Erdogan's popularity is mostly due to a push back against previous governments and the tight military control of the governments, which have been repressing religious citizens and minorities. When you shake up the system seeking to reform a broken system there are a couple of results; you either get a reformer, or you get someone seeking power.

    21. Re:Democracy is like a bus trip for Erdogan by MightyYar · · Score: 1

      I certainly wouldn't want to be in charge there. The past governments had a really tough task... it can't be easy to straddle the line between forcing a secular government on people and repressing them. Erdogan is no better for applying Islamic rules about speech to the entire society, even if it is what the masses demand. People forget that US "democracy" included only male landowners for the most part until much later on. It's a tough mentality to get established.

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  12. EU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And yet they are still complaining that they can't be a member of the EU.
    (And the population of the old members of EU wants to get out)

    1. Re:EU by kthreadd · · Score: 1

      To be honest. Given what's going on within the EU I wouldn't be surprised if this had come from there.

    2. Re:EU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What things, going on within the EU, were you thinking of in particular?

    3. Re:EU by unixisc · · Score: 1

      A good idea would be for Western European countries, like Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, et al to leave the EU, while countries like Turkey, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Kosovo et al get membership. Heck, since they are now into pissing off Russia, they could even give membership to Chechnya.

  13. kick htem out of nato by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    either restore comunications or kickem out of nato....

    i odnt expect the western leaders to do such cause they need a controllable dictator there....

    1. Re:kick htem out of nato by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      Now? Heh, the only reason the old man dares to have some balls is that he knows that his control of the Bosporus is in this climate surrounding the Crimea is more interesting to the western nations than ever before.

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  14. Conflicted by TranquilVoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Honestly not sure what to think of the guy. On the one hand he's suppressing free speech, but on the other he's blocking Twitter.

  15. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Coming soon to the UK(TM)!

  16. Just 199.16.156.6 blocked? by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 1

    199.16.156.38 and 199.16.156.230 are also showing up as IP addresses for twitter.com. So that could help someone maybe (hint: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)

  17. Re:Gee.. Dadaist Reprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Turkey heightens your desire to sleep in your armchair Thanksgiving afternoon, overdone, it can be colon blocking.
      L-tryptophan may have briefly routed around your uvula in a gravy basted MSG based anti-somniferal sponsorship but the
    gizzards next move has been to marinate with the Turkeys DNA to block carbohydrates assigned synaptic addresses. Reports Gordon Ramsay.

              This move essentially erases the nutritional value from the gizzard within Turkey at least to those people who have no access to KFC massaging, foreign virtual private spices , catering proxy service or the Toothy pre-chewing network. We can confirm that Turkey is now blocking the synaptic addresses of sleepers as DNA blocking techniques proved ineffective said Chef Boyardee, of the synaptic blocking Company; Rent-a-sauce in an email to Lars. A Turkey horsedoerves wedgeslice shows there is a PP block order in effect for 11.21.14 11:59 A.M. the primary PP time for synapses, Tom.

  18. Fucking Assholes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    'nuff said.

  19. How quaint by Opportunist · · Score: 2

    Still trying to silence the "rumors" (my lawyer said I should call them rumors instead of what I really think of them) concerning his corruption, embezzlement and money laundering with ancient means of the average tinpot dictator?

    Well, when you're backwards oriented and stuck in the past, new media are probably not going to be your forte.

    --
    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  20. Slashvertisement ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... Perhaps someone can persuade Twitter to get a cloudflare account ...

    Slashvertisement attempt spotted !!

    How much the cloudflare folks are paying you ??

    1. Re:Slashvertisement ? by mysidia · · Score: 1

      How much the cloudflare folks are paying you ??

      Nothing. I just happen to know that Cloudflare run a freemium proxy-based CDN service. There are of course other proxy-based CDNs they could use, where their site would share IP addresses with hundreds or thousands of other major websites such as CNN, Disney, etc.

  21. Re:your nuts by zymano · · Score: 1

    no one would invite you anyways heebrewstein.

  22. It won't work by OricAtmos48K · · Score: 1

    The whole population quickly learned hownto use VPNs and DNS changes. I am posting on ./ from my kettle right now, it is easy folks.

  23. twitter needs to go TOR (Hidden Service) by burni2 · · Score: 1

    Why,

    the connection is encrypted, the url identifies a certain cryptographic key specifically(now anonymous onion routing sounds phoney yeah?)

    And TOR is extremly hard to censor (except for Chuck Norris and North Korea.)

    Also slashdot should go TOR(.onion)

    1. Re:twitter needs to go TOR (Hidden Service) by TheP4st · · Score: 1

      Chuck Norris. Pfft! http://www.schneierfacts.com/f...

      --
      "I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
  24. "Military struggle"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...that's nice way of putting terrorism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers'_Party

  25. Bomb them. by geekymachoman · · Score: 1

    I can't resist. Sorry. It's a 15 year anniversary for me. So don't mod me to harshly.

    Bomb them. I thought you guys(American gov and their European puppet states) go bombing oppressive governments(bringing democracy).. or at LEAST sanction them into economical submission. Make couple of thousands die of hunger, bomb couple of bridges, a hospital.. a school all with depleted uranium.

    Oh yeah... silly me.

  26. Wtf by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 1

    Isn't Turkey a member of the EU? How can one man act as a dictator and order the shutting down of political opposition voices? Or in this case, their "printing press"?

    --
    (-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
    1. Re:Wtf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not. But EU would have nothing to say, because France is world champion of twitter censoring and having a position against Turkey would have an impact on France.

    2. Re:Wtf by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      You're confusing EU with Eurovision.
      However on that note I do think that Eurovision countries do have strict policies towards open Twitter access.

  27. your lawyer must be busy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You talk to your lawyer before posting? Calm down, Erdoan won't sue you. He will just block Slashdot.

  28. Has he started screaming about the Jews again? by gelfling · · Score: 1

    And how this is all their fault? Don't worry, he will. He always does.

  29. People of Turkey, please delete and reboot gov by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    People of Turkey, please delete and reboot gov!

    Who the fsck panders to the fscking politician and their fscking whims these days?

    Delete the fscking government and reboot!

  30. They'll get right on that, I'm sure by Arancaytar · · Score: 1

    Paying to evade political censorship is every corporation's favorite thing to do.

  31. Re:your nuts by kwbauer · · Score: 1

    You could pay me to want to do pretty much anything as long as I don't have to actually do them to prove I want to do them.

  32. "Real" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A "real" Turk is a one that fantasies they are pure racial descendents of original Asiatic Turks (rather than an amalgamation of local regional people's assimilated into Turkish identity by the assimilating Ottomans)

  33. The Age of the Internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Turkey will learn the hard way that trying to restrict democractic rights (of freedom of speech and in some part also assembly) is nearly impossible in the connected age of the Internet. I'd give them at most a decade before geographic location is irrelevant in Europe in regard to access to media. (It was 10-15 years ago that only geeks downloaded TV shows and movies, now it's something the average user can do).