Twitter tackles Turkish takedown (via The Inquirer)
TWITTER HAS LAUNCHED a legal challenge against the block placed on its services in Turkey. Turkey effectively put up a wall between it and Twitter last week. Initially travellers to its domain were sent to a government website before a Turkish court…
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and now, youtube is banned too.
This is why YouTube is banned. False flag is all the rage nowadays. These Turkish politicians are incomprehensible or this a byproduct of the translation?
link to voltairenet.org
Three things:
1. A court has ruled Twitter not a party to the dispute!link to hurriyetdailynews.com
2. Meanwhile the government has banned access to YouTube
link to hurriyetdailynews.com
3. As the block became more sophisticated tweets in Turkey dropped 50% from normal traffic
link to hurriyetdailynews.com
& I’m close enough to New Orleans to offer you a lagniappe: The AKP run city of Bolu shut down two newspapers unfriendly to the ruling party days ahead of the election,
link to hurriyetdailynews.com
Of course, Turkey’s moving away from western alliances as well as western norms
link to hurriyetdailynews.com
Erkan Saka, anthropologist and blogger at the excellenr Erkan’s Field Diary is reporting that the Tor Browser site in Turkey is also blocked. Tor has been one of the most popular work-arounds during this time of censorship.
link to erkansaka.net