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The people of Turkey have voted for him right? He improved their economic situation enormously, this is democracy, you get who you vote for.
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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.
1. All this "1st / 2nd / 3rd world" is from cold war time and not really relevant anymore.
2. Turkey is NATO member since 1952 so it's would be your first world country.
PS: Of course Turkey is not a rich country, but everyone there can certainly afford $3-5 a month for VPN.
UPD: s/user/use/
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The regularity of Turkish elections is... disputed, to say the least. Before and after Erdogan.
Really? Who says this?
Edit: In case it is not clear, this is a (poor taste) joke. The track record for beating those who dissent even when outside of Turkey is well established.
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 wor…
So very concretely, if China says "hey US of A, please don’t bring uncensored Internet to my citizens: it would be a shame if all this manufacturing and trade suddenly stopped", and the US gov agrees, then Elon Musk will not provide uncensored Internet access to Chinese citizens. Else, Elon Musk will cease to be a billionaire and the Internet access will stop working anyway.
The people of Turkey have voted for him right? He improved their economic situation enormously, this is democracy, you get who you vote for.
It’s not clear. The elections were widely reported to be fraudulent and voter intimidation and violence were widely reported. A meaningful portion of the world’s imprisoned reporters are in Turkey. It is trivial to find articles and reports on this.
Any government that suppresses the internet like this deserves to be overthrown.
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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.
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 wor…
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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.
I think you shouldn't use terminology you don't understand: 1. All this "1st / 2nd / 3rd world" is from cold war time and not really relevant anymore. 2. Turkey is NATO member since 1952 so it's would be your first world country. PS: Of course Turkey is not a rich country, but everyone there can certainly afford $3-5 a month for VPN. UPD: s/user/use/