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Turkish government takes down YouTube too

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Post by _pgpz »

After Twitter, this was expected. Just couple of hours ago, leaked audio recordings were uploaded to Youtube which show "Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Güler are heard discussing possible intervention into Syria and possible reactions from the world"

They were planning to organize artificial attacks from Syrian border and put the blame on Syria and strength Erdogan's position before local elections.

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Post by contulluipeste »

_pgpz wrote: post #3

After Twitter, this was expected. Just couple of hours ago, leaked audio recordings were uploaded to Youtube which show "Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Güler are heard discussing possible intervention into Syria and possible reactions from the world"…

This sounds like a political dismissal of an inconvenient tool. Can this be just temporary? Like YouTube being "rehabilitated" after those local elections?

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Post by ljd »

It's interesting to see a country dismantle internet access site by site. It challenges our notions of what we think will always be there.

If your site has a dependency on YouTube, your site isn't going to be functioning in Turkey.

It's like Netflix's Chaos Monkey [0], but in real life.

[0]http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...

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Post by arasatasaygin »

corkill wrote: post #6

This will just push everyone sharing info to Facebook. Next move bye bye Facebook...or internet. Any way to build a mobile app that rotates servers enough to circumvent this kind of blocking?

I don't think that will happen. Though I didn't think that they would block twitter too :)
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