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Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey

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Re: Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey

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Post by grenoire »

To add to this; Turkey has had a very turbulent past when it came to internet censorship. Politicians have been baffled at (and as such scared by) the speeds at which information spreads online, and have been actively attempting since then to include the internet in their crusade for media censorship.

Also, Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey for two years now (see the logo at https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasayfa - "being missed for two years"). It's just a miserable status quo... Savvier users can circumvent these censors just like anywhere else, but the peoples are powerless whether they can access information or not.

Re: Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey

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Post by dopamean »

> Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey

It's kind of incredible how that head line are so terrifying. The only explanation for this is that people don't want information getting out of that area. It's so fucked up.

Maybe this is a bit naive to say but I really hate that this is just how things are. We all know what's going to happen and there's nothing that can be done about it. It doesn't really seem like it'll ever change either.

Re: Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey

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Post by aerodog »

dopamean wrote: post #4

> Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey It's kind of incredible how that head line are so terrifying. The only explanation for this is that people don't want information getting out of that area. It's so fucked up. Maybe this is a bit naive to say but I really hate that this is just how things are. We all know what's going to happen and there's nothing that can be done about it. It d…

We do? I don't know. I find we rarely know what's going to happen. In 2016 everyone had for weeks talked about how Aleppo was going to go up in flames. And in the end, it turned out to be an actual operation to rid the place of rebels and then they established order when the city fell. Maybe in these towns the same will happen. But it's hard to say "we all know what's going to happen."

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Post by plehoux »

dopamean wrote: post #4

> Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey It's kind of incredible how that head line are so terrifying. The only explanation for this is that people don't want information getting out of that area. It's so fucked up. Maybe this is a bit naive to say but I really hate that this is just how things are. We all know what's going to happen and there's nothing that can be done about it. It d…

Wouldn't Starlink by Space X solve this? Authoritarian govs. would make it illegal to subscribe... but like VPNs it would be very hard to police, even harder.

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dopamean wrote: post #4

> Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey It's kind of incredible how that head line are so terrifying. The only explanation for this is that people don't want information getting out of that area. It's so fucked up. Maybe this is a bit naive to say but I really hate that this is just how things are. We all know what's going to happen and there's nothing that can be done about it. It d…

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Re: Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey

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Post by zzzcpan »

plehoux wrote: post #6
dopamean wrote: post #4

> Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey It's kind of incredible how that head line are so terrifying. The only explanation for this is that people don't want information getting out of that area. It's so fucked up. Maybe this is a bit naive to say but I really hate that this is just how things are. We all know what's going to happen and there's nothing that can be done about it. It d…

Wouldn't Starlink by Space X solve this? Authoritarian govs. would make it illegal to subscribe... but like VPNs it would be very hard to police, even harder.

Starlink is more vulnerable to governments than VPNs and is going to be much much more expensive.
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