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Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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without wiki i don't know how i would have solved my problem sets in grad school. let's see how the academic performance improves in turkey.

Interestingly, they actually briefly mention something on the topic in the article:

> In the time that the block was in effect, we heard from students, teachers, professionals and more in Turkey about how the block had impacted their daily lives. For many students, the block had occurred just days before their final exams.

Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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Don't expect it to last for long. As soon as something negative about Erdogan gets posted a loophole will be found and will be banned again. Unfortunately the situation in Turkey is not simple, there's potentially innocent people still in prison since the failed coup attempt, Wikipedia is a small inconvenience compared to prosecution of innocents.

Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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post #2

without wiki i don't know how i would have solved my problem sets in grad school. let's see how the academic performance improves in turkey.

if you're smart enough to be in grad school, you're smart enough to have a VPN

You assume a vpn service (or even an ssh tunnel) is something a grad student in a third world country can afford? Often this is not the case.

Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you're smart enough to be in grad school, you're smart enough to have a VPN

You assume a vpn service (or even an ssh tunnel) is something a grad student in a third world country can afford? Often this is not the case.

There are free VPNs, although most are probably spyware. If you need one both free of charge and free of malware, btw, you should get Psiphon ( https://psiphon.ca/ ), which came out of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto.

Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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post #11
post #2

without wiki i don't know how i would have solved my problem sets in grad school. let's see how the academic performance improves in turkey.

Interestingly, they actually briefly mention something on the topic in the article: > In the time that the block was in effect, we heard from students, teachers, professionals and more in Turkey about how the block had impacted their daily lives. For many students, the block had occurred just days before their final exams.

> For many students, the block had occurred just days before their final exams.

So no effect on those students then.

Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, they actually briefly mention something on the topic in the article: > In the time that the block was in effect, we heard from students, teachers, professionals and more in Turkey about how the block had impacted their daily lives. For many students, the block had occurred just days before their final exams.

> For many students, the block had occurred just days before their final exams. So no effect on those students then.

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Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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I wonder what will happen (politically) in countries that engage in mass Internet censorship when SpaceX's Starlink constellation goes GA. I've always believed (perhaps naively) that the Internet is a great equalizer for information. Free (as in freedom) and unfettered Internet access seems like one of the few things that could make it incredible difficult for bad and oppressive regimes to operate anywhere in the world.

If I were a billionaire philanthropist I would try and find ways to get as much Internet connectivity into the hands of impoverished people.

Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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post #17

The people of Turkey have voted for him right? He improved their economic situation enormously, this is democracy, you get who you vote for.

The regularity of Turkish elections is... disputed, to say the least. Before and after Erdogan.
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