Turkey Blocks Access To Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook (itpro.co.uk)

Turkey has blocked Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube, according to censorship monitoring site, Turkey Blocks. From a report on IT Pro: The group broke the news today around 1am local time, saying the government was throttling these services. This is a method of slowing down websites to the extent that they become difficult to use or unusable. Initially, issues with the social media and messaging apps detected on national provider TTNet, Turkcell, and they were soon reported on other big internet providers as well. The block follows the arrest of 11 politicians from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) overnight in the south-east of the country. Many reports are linking the social media block to these arrests, with the HDP the main opposition party to that of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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Re:Again?

[Fire_Wraith]

Given all the things that Erdogan has done in the wake of the 'coup', it makes me wonder whether it was actually a coup attempt, or just Erdogan's version of the Reichstag fire.

Re:Again?

[Maritz]

Even before the coup, Erdogan was shutting down newspapers and universities. Hilariously, the Turks voted him in. Democracy lately has been doing its best to prove the chinese model right. I know for a fact the Chinese leadership were delighted by the Brexit vote for exactly that reason.

Re:Again?

[Maritz]

That's the only positive I can think about the US being dumb enough to elect orange Hitler. We'll get to see if these checks and balances can stop a madman from fucking everything up. This guy wants to be a tyrant, and lots of dumb sheep are all too willing to help him out.