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Dropbox, Google Drive, GitHub and Microsoft OneDrive Cloud Services Blocked In Turkey (turkeyblocks.org)
An anonymous reader quotes the censorship-monitoring site Turkey Blocks: Turkey has blocked access to Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and partially restricted Google Drive cloud file sharing services following the leak of a set of private emails allegedly belonging to Minister Albayrak by hacktivist group RedHack. Both Google Drive and Dropbox services were issuing SSL errors, indicating intercepted traffic at the national or ISP level. Microsoft OneDrive was also subsequently blocked off throughout Turkey.
The emails reportedly document Turkey's use of pro-government trolls on Twitter -- though ironically, it's Twitter that's now being used to document the censorship. (GitHub was also blocked last night, according to a status update from the group.) Google Drive was even displaying an official notice from the Turkish government's Information and Communication Technologies Authority describing their block as an "administration measure" -- although another Twitter update this morning says Google Drive is now back online after Google complied with the government's takedown order.
The emails reportedly document Turkey's use of pro-government trolls on Twitter -- though ironically, it's Twitter that's now being used to document the censorship. (GitHub was also blocked last night, according to a status update from the group.) Google Drive was even displaying an official notice from the Turkish government's Information and Communication Technologies Authority describing their block as an "administration measure" -- although another Twitter update this morning says Google Drive is now back online after Google complied with the government's takedown order.
Seriously, this regime is worse than a lot of the shit that's going down in the middle east.
Anyone still wants that country and its tinpot dictator in the EU?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
being forced to use subversion would be torture
It's too easy to block stuff. What ever happened to all that *route around the damage* bullshit?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Cardigan snackbar!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Lucky for the Turkish government there are no other ways to send documents over the internet. If only there was a way anyone could publish a document and have it visible by anyone with some sort of a document browser. If they could be linked together it would form sort of a web. That'd be awesome!
The emails reportedly document Turkey's use of pro-government trolls on Twitter -- though ironically, it's Twitter that's now being used to document the censorship.
According to a Turkish journalist, Twitter is also helping out with the censorship:
https://twitter.com/MahirZeyna...
At the request of Turkey, Twitter decided to block my Turkish account within Turkey.
I'm not the only journalist whose Twitter feed is restricted in Turkey. The process is simple: Turkey asks, Twitter shuts down.
And lists a few more who have been banned.
What if we had a network of LEO satellites that replaced the internet backbone, providing high speed internet access to all people and only a handful of governments were even capable of disrupting this network? Would it be worth pissing off every nation state that censored the internet and possibly causing a war?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Every car, bus, and train is just a road accident waiting to happen. Tell us--what's it like, walking everywhere?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Teachers, judges, journalists, businesspeople, bankers, shoemakers, chefs, police officers, florists... All of these people are in Turkish prisons for simply downloading ByLock. Thousands of children were left orphans in a country where child social services are broke. There are dozens of cases where entire families were jailed because of this app.
Subversion does great for small teams whose members mostly work on different parts of the project. Been using it this way for about 10 years.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Only weak governments and nations need to use trolls. The strong can let the facts speak for themselves.
Strength is having control over the facts.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
It's obvious Turkey should be awarded a full membership in the EU as they have proven themselves to be on the same level as the European Commission, the non-elected elitist Rulers of the union. See: European Constitution, and Dutch Ukraine Referendum.
Of course. And the death penalty and holocaust denial aren't that important really...
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Erdogan is modeling himself after something between Mussolini and Stalin, with a touch of the Shah thrown in. 'Purity' has been used for centuries as a convenient yardstick with which to measure one's competitors and find them lacking. Looks like he learned from the best at that game.
Organization? You must be joking..
Google drive partially blocked? How is it possible to partially block an SSL-enabled service? And TFA shows https:/// URL with HTTP responses codes, but SSL should prevent and error insertion by in-the-middle ISP.
Anybody who knows the first thing about Turkey knows that that country does not belong in the EU - regardless of what criteria is used.
Culturally, the Turks are not Europeans. While they may have lived close to a century of Kemalism, it neither made them a pluralistic, free-thinking society like any of the new EU entrants are, nor did it even make them - the people - less Islamic. Kemalism may have succeeded had it replaced Islam w/ some other imaginary friend that the Turks could have had. Regardless, when Turkey was a secular country, the EU didn't want it b'cos the army had complete power, or at least enough of a power to veto any regime going Islamic. The EU, you see, wanted only complete democratic countries who would ratify the gazillions of EU rules and regulations
Finally, when Turkey did have a democratic government, the people elected Erdogan, who is more Islamic than any since the Ottoman caliphate. Now, it's Turkey that finds the EU a lot less interesting than rediscovering its old Turkic glory, particularly its leadership of the Muslim world that it had not only during the Ottomans, but even prior. On one hand, Turkey heads a club of the ex Soviet stans - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. On the other hand, they've been allied w/ the Saudis and Qatar to try and topple Assad's regime, and hence their current friction w/ Russia.
About the above story, Turkey could well start an Islamic Cloud Service and give ISIS access to it. They'll then have clientele in >30 countries.
The strong don't have to control the facts. Controlling them creates weakness.
Yeah, you should say that more like Yoda...
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.