Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
turkeyblocks.org
Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
1–10 of 476 posts
Re: Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
#2Not surprising at all. When some dictator puts 40,000 in jail and 200,000 others out of work and nobody stands up against him under the pretext of the failed "coup" which was committed by a couple of hundreds young officers without even trying to capture the dictator, then blocking the entire internet should be ordinary.
Re: Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
#3Such freedom! They are a terrorist nation that treats their own citizens terribly.
Re: Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
#4Governments yield too much power, meanwhile citizens keep funding said governments with ridiculously high taxes.
Trying to fix governments is counterproductive, just need to decentralize things imho.
Re: Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
#5Turkey feels like an "North Korea" movie and we watch the "making of" part -- lmao
Re: Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
#6Governments yield too much power, meanwhile citizens keep funding said governments with ridiculously high taxes. Trying to fix governments is counterproductive, just need to decentralize things imho.
What do you mean by "decentralise"? Smaller-scope government at a local level? Anarcho-syndicalism?
I suspect many of the same issues would appear.
Re: Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
#7I think 2016 will go down as the high water mark for a global Internet. I see a lot of countries looking at the success of China in keeping political control, and the failure of Egypt, Tunisia, etc where the open Internet was used to overthrow the regime and deciding that allowing an open, free internet is not in their best interests.
If you think that Western, liberal democracies are exempt from this, just look at the attention "fake news" and "no platform" have been getting. We are going away from the free and open interchange and discussion of ideas (even horrible ideas) to the coercive suppression of ideas (at this point bad ideas, but may not be true in the future).
Add to this that a large portion of the web content is controlled by fewer entities (if Facebook or Google bans your site, you are not going to get very much exposure). Also, we are moving from user controlled general purpose computers to secured, walked garden devices. The government by applying pressure on maybe a dozen companies, can control what type of information the average person is exposed to.
And the whole dodge that the first amendment only applies to the government is dangerous. Freedom of speech is as much a principle as a law. If we get used to large powerful non-government entities suppressing speech we do not like, it will be a brief step to accepting government doing the same or at least pressuring the non-government entities to so it.
Re: Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
#8Governments yield too much power, meanwhile citizens keep funding said governments with ridiculously high taxes. Trying to fix governments is counterproductive, just need to decentralize things imho.
What do you mean by "decentralise"? Smaller-scope government at a local level? Anarcho-syndicalism? I suspect many of the same issues would appear.
[deleted]
Re: Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
#9What triggered this?
Usually Turkish government blocks sites right after a terrorist attack or in the case of the coup attempt. Is something about to happen?
Re: Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
#10https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_W...
A data dump of all English Wikipedia articles as a torrent. In case you are not able to access that, here's the direct link: https://itorrents.org/torrent/6434C646E33D02F3CDCB9C15F9DF11...
On a side note, I think it's fantastic that we have the entire Wikipedia, possibly the greatest effort towards organizing the world's information, at our fingertips.