Social media shutdown in Turkey
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Social media shutdown in Turkey
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#2Here's the reason: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37868441
More political prisoners: The Pro-Kurdish HDP opposition party's leaders and several MPs have been arrested by the Government.
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#3Need peer-to-peer IoT mesh networks with spillover across the borders.
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#4I just got back from visiting family in Turkey.
Turkey is in a really weird place. On the one hand, Erdogan is a corrupt tyrant who has done some inexcusably horrible things. On the other hand, he has thoroughly cleaned the cemaat infestation. For the record, cemaat refers to people loyal to a man named Fethullah Gulen, who is a radical Islamist and a very controversial figure in Turkey. You can read more about him here:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/who-fethullah-g%C3%BClen-13...
Anyway, Internet blockages like this usually precede widespread police operations. Based on what I can gather from Turkish newspapers right now, it looks like HDP headquarters is being raided by the police as part of a terror investigation (which is kind of a big deal). HDP is a pro-Kurdish, pro-minority party that got a lot of votes in the last election and prevented Erdogan's AKP from reaching parliamentary majority.
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#5It's breaking my heart watching a democracy slowly being suppressed and manipulated into a dictatorship.
I wish the people will find ways to stand up for their rights and initiate a peaceful revolution.
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#6Good that people are working on those kind of projects like https://freedomboxfoundation.org/doc/flyer.pdf
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#7Here's the reason: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37868441 More political prisoners: The Pro-Kurdish HDP opposition party's leaders and several MPs have been arrested by the Government.
Indeed. So this shouldn't be perceived as just a matter of internet censorship, there is more going on than just that.
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#8It's breaking my heart watching a democracy slowly being suppressed and manipulated into a dictatorship. I wish the people will find ways to stand up for their rights and initiate a peaceful revolution.
They don't need a revolution. They need to stop voting for Erdogan.
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#9Good that people are working on those kind of projects like https://freedomboxfoundation.org/doc/flyer.pdf
You still need internet for this to work ;) these boxes only work in places where the internet isn't going to be shut down on a whim.
Countries that are willing to blanket the internet and do mass arrests aren't exactly the place where you want to be caught with those things.
This is the problem with all the so called "freedom" tools (tails, tor, various vpns etc.) and it is that they essentially only provide safe "freedom" to people who are already generally free.
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#10I just got back from visiting family in Turkey. Turkey is in a really weird place. On the one hand, Erdogan is a corrupt tyrant who has done some inexcusably horrible things. On the other hand, he has thoroughly cleaned the cemaat infestation. For the record, cemaat refers to people loyal to a man named Fethullah Gulen, who is a radical Islamist and a very controversial figure in Turkey. You can read more about him h…
It's strange that Gulen is considered a radical islamist by some and a super pacifists, modern muslim by others. How is this possible?
For some background, he's well supported in international muslims with seemingly more forward-thinking views.