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Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: In what's a significant escalation in its censorship efforts, the Turkish government now wants to block the very same tools that tech-savvy citizens use to get around the government-imposed social media blocks. On Friday, the Turkish information technologies and communications authority, or BTK, ordered internet providers in the country to block Tor and several other censorship-circumvention Virtual Private Networks or VPNs, such as VPN Master, Hotspot Shield, Psiphon, Zenmate, TunnelBear, Zero, Vypr, Express, according to multiple local reports. Earlier in the day, the government had already blocked Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and restrictions on messaging apps like WhatsApp and Skype were also reported. The independent monitoring organization TurkeyBlocks also reported throttling and other forms of censorship on Friday, linking the disruptions and blocks to the arrests of pro-Kurdish party leaders.
Hello dictatorship. :(
... but even IS confiscating all phones and computers has failed to cut the population completely from the outside world. The actions of the Turkish authorities are leading them down a slippery slope to a total, hated police-state.
Isn't it great that we live in the US, where we have freedom of the press.
The press is free to report on any story without worrying about how the government will react. They are free to cover both sides of a story, to give a different perspective, and not have to worry about what the people in charge will do.
The press is also free to leak information which would paint the government in a bad light, and which might uncover corruption, collusion, or crime. Additionally, the press isn't liable for publishing this information, as the pentagon papers have clearly shown. (Here I'm making a distinction between "publishing" and "getting". Just publishing, without addressing how the information was obtained, is allowed.)
There's also a strong sense of "protect your sources" in the mainstream media, so that anyone can feel safe identifying themselves to members of the press as they pass information.
Living in the US is great, because we have freedom of the press.
Yay.
Erdogan is a faithful NATO ally, while Putin is an evil KGB spy!
Go away. You're a backwards Arab dictatorship. We don't want you here.
Just shows what NATO has been allowed to become with Turkey as a member. Basically an empty arms and munitions sales club with total disregard for how those arms and munitions are used. Supply them to terrorists, not a problem, let sex slavers use them to take over towns and cities leading to a million rapes (let them kill themselves till they tire of it - Hillary Clinton, I guess that's what those under age sex slaves do, tire of it and them kill themselves, no excuse the corporate whore knew exactly what was going on and still allowed arms and munitions to be sold for exactly that purpose), not a problem. Basically just war is good for business, sell, sell, sell.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
leading down? Turkey were way down that road long before this was announced.
The more countries try to ban Tor, the more new methods are invented and tested in order to access the network through such attempted censorship.
So, you go Turkey, have some fun! The Tor Project and it's users will ultimately benefit!
We're going ahead with Thanksgiving.
Have gnu, will travel.
Tor is supposed to hide among normal traffic, but its been so badly backdoored, it really doesn't.
Turkey coup had a wider purpose, and you should not ignore the threat to a NATO partner or the control Putin exerts with control of that oil pipeline to Turkey.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/putins-sinister-role-failed-turkish-coup/
Perhaps he'll even get control of the biggest NATO country with Donaldsky Trumpsky.
Ataturk would be spinning in his grave if he knew of the things Erdogan has done to the country.
Are they really, seriously, going to stop their people from doing ssh'ing to cloud servers? Because if they are, they won't have a high tech industry at all. I might have been in the market for freelance django developers, but not from Turkey apparently.
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Their country is well named.
Unless you D.A.R.E. to defy flag worship/hymns to the country before sports games or anywhere else in popular entertaiment.
DAMN YOU SO AND SO, HOW DARE YOU MAKE US THINK? /mmmm more beer, more is better!
Because internet is easy to block. SMS is far more difficult to block because it is used by all kinds of industrial hardware so blocking it can cause serious issues for thre regime as well. Encrypted SMS is required as a backup service.
Fortunately the Turks can use the Signal fork Silence: https://silence.im/
This is what happens when a government attempts to censor the internet. First, they start with a few "objectionable" sites. Then they expand the list. Then they clamp down on the workarounds that people use to accessed banned content. At some point, they'll have to either relent or go Full DPRK and cut off the external internet entirely.
Never go Full DPRK.
(Score: -1, Stupid)
What a farce
Blocking encrypted speech over the Internet is a human rights violation. Those implementing the censorship are playing with the very rope that will hang themselves.
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From Canada, and I sit with the Turks quite often on a video chat app with no problem. They are quite awesome people... lol just dont get fresh with their women and everything is fine. Ya... just don't get fresh with their women... ya. :)
Thanks for the humor.
Yeah, they should do it like we do in America. Require all the big companies to scan and funnel data to the government or provide you with important pieces of information whenever you ask. Then pass some laws so they're not allowed to tell you they're providing all this information to them. Then invite all the CEOs over to the Big House for lavish parties or recruit them to be your next big political appointee. Then watch the online dissenters drop like flies.
They're probably not blocking that one because they would break SSL.
Can they still use i2p ?
They already do.