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Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

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Post by hexa- »

After having censored the turkish people via DNS and thus restricting their access to Twitter everyone moved on to other DNS Services like Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) and OpenDNS. Earlier today an IP-Ban was issued and immediately Tor-Usage from Turkey starts rising. What a magnificent people. Keep on fighting!

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Post by kiba »

Freedom of speech. It always seem to be under attack.

I wonder though, do we have more or less freedom of speech over time? I tried to google those things, but I couldn't find the graph of freedomness over time.

(No, ancedotes don't count. Our perceptions can be skewed by media bias.)

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Post by adrusi »

kiba wrote: post #3

Freedom of speech. It always seem to be under attack. I wonder though, do we have more or less freedom of speech over time? I tried to google those things, but I couldn't find the graph of freedomness over time. (No, ancedotes don't count. Our perceptions can be skewed by media bias.)

I remember reading an article a couple weeks ago, I'm not sure where, but I think it was posted on HN, about democracy over time. While not the same, that's a good proxy for measuring freedom. It said that democracy reached a peak around 2000, and that it's declined a little since then, but much slower than it was increasing before then.

I think this article was either on The Atlantic, The Economist or BBC, if you want to go digging.

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Post by predius »

pdevr wrote: post #4

Thank you. I looked at other countries' graphs as well. India's [1] make no sense. Distorted sinusoidal wave?! [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-re...

From my experience in internet businesses in developing countries, you tend to get quite strong weekly patterns as a lot of people only have access to computers at work, so usage tends to drop on the weekend.

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Post by tim333 »

Also: "As the Turkish government’s effort to ban use of Twitter continued Friday, the country’s Internet users rushed to install apps such as Hotspot Shield, which had 270,000 downloads from Turkish users within 12 hours, according to David Gorodyansky, the company’s chief executive."

I think Tor's a bit of an overkill. This message sent over Hotspot Shield from Vietnam because of my Facebook addiction (blocked on and off here)

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