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Re: Twitter is blocked in Turkey

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Post by randomafrican »

archagon wrote: post #84
aytekin wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He is really one of those James Bond villains. The sentence describes his state of mind: He is the best thing for the country, so any resistance, corruption news, and protest cannot come from people of this country. It must be a conspiracy of the west. So, by blocking twitter, he is blocking west's conspiracy. He started believing his own propaganda. The truth is people who vote for him is mostly poorer Turks, and th…

It seems there are a couple of countries with the same problem in their leadership. How the F do these people get into power?

Many of them actually get power-hungry while in power.

Especially the ones who get elected after spending some time in the opposition under not-so-democratic regimes.

Re: Twitter is blocked in Turkey

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Post by theverse »

kosso wrote: post #17

Many people would see this as a good thing. It's just a big site run by some American company. Amazingly, there are other ways to communicate.

Turks doesn't have fanaticism towards domestic good. It's a central communication channel that is known to run by people who seems to be fair, them being American is obviously not relevant to them.

Re: Twitter is blocked in Turkey

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Post by hamdiakoguz »

shn wrote: post #76
hamdiakoguz wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First of all just because something is legal it doesn't mean it's right. And if only it was legal...

What I told are possible explanations and scenarios. I took the side of the 1st option which is what you defend as well. We are not in a position to be the judge ourselves. When we say something it needs to explain something. That's what I tried yet you downvoted, which unfair and mean. I stand by what I think of you.

For the record, I'm not one of the downvoters and not just because my karma is not enough.

But come on, "They are as good as those that blocked Twitter in Turkey." is harsh to say the least.

Re: Twitter is blocked in Turkey

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Post by [deleted] »

yigitdemirag wrote: post #42
devindotcom wrote: post #32

I just tried pinging twitter with this tool, the turkey server seems to work: http://cloudmonitor.ca.com/en/ping.php?vtt=1395356295&vargho... but china, egypt, and interestingly panama don't. I'd love to report on this but it's hard to prove this kind of thing. any ideas? (i'm also contacting twitter) edit: here's my story - http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-blocked-nat... please let me know if you see…

~$ traceroute www.twitter.com traceroute to www.twitter.com (195.175.254.2), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.43.1 (192.168.43.1) 3.008 ms 5.479 ms 5.466 ms 2 10.182.5.82 (10.182.5.82) 395.945 ms 395.939 ms 395.924 ms 3 10.182.5.81 (10.182.5.81) 392.815 ms * 392.941 ms 4 10.182.5.234 (10.182.5.234) 395.846 ms 419.025 ms 419.020 ms 5 10.182.5.237 (10.182.5.237) 419.008 ms * 418.972 ms 6 46.234.2.9 (46.234.2.9) 4…

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Re: Twitter is blocked in Turkey

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Post by [deleted] »

mrtksn wrote: post #45
devindotcom wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the information, I'll try to include this in my report.

You are welcome. If you have any questions feel free to ask, you can reach me by twitter too: @mrtksn this is how the DNS Look-up for twitter looks like at the moment: http://i.imgur.com/yKmmDYc.jpg I used TTNET's DNS server for this. It's the biggest ISP in the country.

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Re: Twitter is blocked in Turkey

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Post by valevk »

makmanalp wrote: post #43

Background info: This is hypothesized to be a reaction to a series of audio recordings that were anonymously released over time. These were ridiculously damning, clearly someone is tapping phones without anyone else's knowledge. Previously: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/turkish-pm-corr... http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/iw/contents/articles/origina... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_corruption_scanda…

Do you happen to know where I can find translations for the youtube videos?

Re: Twitter is blocked in Turkey

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Post by makmanalp »

valevk wrote: post #96
makmanalp wrote: post #43

Background info: This is hypothesized to be a reaction to a series of audio recordings that were anonymously released over time. These were ridiculously damning, clearly someone is tapping phones without anyone else's knowledge. Previously: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/turkish-pm-corr... http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/iw/contents/articles/origina... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_corruption_scanda…

Do you happen to know where I can find translations for the youtube videos?

I think this is the best you can do right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7297985

Re: Twitter is blocked in Turkey

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Post by chippy »

qwerta wrote: post #69

Bullshit. I was tweeting from Istanbul just 3 days ago.

This is an interesting comment. I think comments similar to this should be looked at and at least the message evaluated and at most the user profile examined.

I may start browsing comments which have been downvoted the most to create a list on political-heavy threads. However it may be difficult to determine whether the user is a shill or just stupid.

Re: Twitter is blocked in Turkey

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Post by enscr »

Twitter has been playing a pivotal role in connecting people and getting the word out via an unbiased medium. The effect of twitter has been phenomenal over the past few years in countries that have undergone political revolution. Much of the reality that the citizens need to know are blacked out by mainstream media because it's controlled by the government & corporations who are hand in glove.

Unfortunately, many countries have resorted to a simple fix of policing twitter. Second unfortunate thing is that twitter is still restricted to the tech savvy crowd. There's still a sizable population outside third world that don't know what it is & how to use it. But as long as we have un-policed social media tools, we might see large scale cleaning in the coming decades.

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