As a Turk, i'm just ashamed of our government.<p>Schools in Turkey teaches in geography classes that Turkey is a bridge between Asia and Europe. But this is also true for our social structure: We sometimes turn our face to europe, ass to asia and sometimes we turn our ass to europe and face to middle east. Our last 12 years was a sample for second statement.<p>(by the way, i'm sorry for my english skills)
Wow, Turkey is really going nuts. I am surprised, because normally you hear "social media ban" and you think some dictatorship. One thing is certain, while this is going on, Turkey can kiss EU membership ambitions goodbye.
From Turkish Medical Association's press release:<p>“There is the interest lobby behind Gezi Park protests.”<p>“They had alcohol in Dolmabahçe Mosque.”<p>“They assaulted my sisters covering their hair.”<p>As physicians we are following with worry the discriminating, stigmatizing and polarizing discourse adopted by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since Gezi Park protests.<p>We were actually appalled hearing what he said yesterday in Gaziantep about Berkin Elvan.<p>Normally, no one would try to bring two families both losing their child in confrontation. Normally, no one would declare as “terrorist” a 15 years old child shot by police while out for buying a loaf of bread and lost his life after 269 days of struggle for survival.<p>Normally, no one would slant playing marbles as if they were cannonballs to fire.<p>Normally, no one would provoke a rally crowd to protest a mother who lost her child only two days ago.<p>We are physicians.<p>We know about to many psychological and emotional states of human beings.<p>We are worried about the emotional state of Prime Minister Erdoğan.<p>We are utterly worried.<p>Indeed worried about himself, his close circles and our country.<p>And we share our worries with public.
It's cute to watch an sliding-into-autocracy government trying to implement internet censorship without the infrastructure. Mr. Erdogan, call Cisco, see if you can get a discount on the China Package.
I have a site that receives >200k daily uniques from Turkey. I feel like I should put something up to tell my Turkish users about how to get around their government's Internet blocking, but I'm not sure exactly what to put up. Is there a link for this specific purpose? Should I just give them a link to Tor?
Wait, how did simple access to google DNS circumvent their twitter ban?<p>They had blocked twitter... merely by removing it from some DNS servers that they thought were the only ones used by people in Turkey? Or something?<p>That seems like a particularly ineffectual way to try and block twitter. And I don't understand, if they have the ability to _actually_ block Google DNS... why don't they just do the same thing to actually block twitter?<p>This makes no sense, I must be missing something. Anyone have the scoop?
Time is ripe for a P2P real-time people-network. Outside first world, Twitter has been playing a pivotal role in helping people counter oppressive regimes & lack of democracy. But this may not continue for long.<p>Edit: Ripe = not just for making it but adopting it as well.
Good thing Tor exists:<p><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/turkey-twitter-ban-tor-usage/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailydot.com/technology/turkey-twitter-ban-tor-us...</a>
Ah, the slippery slope. What's next? 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, or has that been done already. Hey everybody in the world, this is how dictators stop free speech and tighten control on their people. Technologists need to think about these things going forward in all the work we do.
<i>“Twitter has knelt down [before the Turkish government]. [We are a] nation in love with its independence. And [enhancing] this is what Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has done. We are no banana republic.”</i><p>Wait, what?