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Turkey Heightens Twitter Censorship with Mandated IP Blocking
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."
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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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!
Cue the reverse proxy mirror sites in 3...2...1
In other news, astrophysicists have announced that they now know what all that dark matter is: it's stupidity.
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.
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.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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
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More information in this email the Tor project sent out last year, including how to make an unpublished bridge that's harder to censor: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
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.
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.
"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.
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?
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
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.
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.
no one would invite you anyways heebrewstein.
Developing IT infrastructure is and extensive process.
Cloning it after it's been developed is cheap and fast.
The whole population quickly learned hownto use VPNs and DNS changes. I am posting on ./ from my kettle right now, it is easy folks.
To be honest. Given what's going on within the EU I wouldn't be surprised if this had come from there.
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)
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.
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.
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.
And how this is all their fault? Don't worry, he will. He always does.
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.
Paying to evade political censorship is every corporation's favorite thing to do.
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.