Social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey
⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show online platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in #Turkey on multiple networks; the incident comes as main opposition party CHP calls for rallies after police blockade its Istanbul headquarters
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it's due to the government trying to arrest and/or impress the main opposition. it's just arbitrary
Imagine if a people actually chose to ban those websites tho. I would start my journey to become a Turk. (♫ ff7 turks theme and snaps ♫) Unfortunately, Erdoğan.
Imagine if a people actually chose to create and enforce rules to reign in these corpo owned services.
Banning shit is the opposite of what works.
Now if you wanna do this without a ban or rules you just gotta let them do it to themselves with ads. All platforms are seeing large declines and it seems to coincide with increases in ads
oh yeah most definitely and I agree. My real serious positions are :
My previous comment was more of a way to commiserate about those services than offering the advice that This Is The Way.
Turkey's main source of renewable power is Atatürk spinning in his grave.
Ironic that the only way to get a government to put the screws to billionaires and their shit platforms is to threaten the hegemony of the party that used the very same platforms to ratfuck their way to the top.
Even though it would be better for the world if everyone blocked that shit (maybe except YouTube, as it got its use cases), but they blocked it for all the wrong reasons.
They dont give a shit about well-being or standing up to big tech. They just want all ideas of an opposition to dissapear.
They are silencing free speech - at least that's the goal.
This is very easy to bypass and we the Turks are very good at anti-censorship practices after 25 years of AKP rule. The bigger problem is Meta/Google/X censoring content on government orders.
I've restricted them in my home, as well. Is this a trend?
Only if your home is a nation-state.
Dang!
There's like an acre of land at the Alabama-Georgia border that neither state claims based on each of their border maps. Buy it, build a house there.
Boom - nation-state.
"well my house is in a state within a Nation so check mate liberals"
What a good opportunity for some mindfulness for the Turks. Maybe.
You approve of a dictator blocking the populace from congregating?
I was being facetious. ❤️
So there are 3 main ISP's in Turkey Türk Telekom, Vodafone and Turkcell. From my testings Vodafone(dsl) is fine but Turkcell(cellular) seems to block those sites. Most weird of all (at least in my case) Vodafone uses Türk Telekom's backbone and distrubiton but it doesn't get affected by these blocks
Is it literally just DNS filtering? If you change your phone DNS it might just straight up work again.
Nope it isn't arinc9 did an pretty in depth analysis (https://arinc9.notion.site/Turkey-s-ISPs-Analysis) but it can be circumvated with software like v2ray and wireguard
Is mastodon blocked as well?
how would they even manage to do that?
i don't think thet can block every single instance on the internet
Hense why I'm asking. Its a good indicator if federation can truely work or not in response to these kind if situations.
They’d probably spend resources on that if there was a critical mass of people. The reason they don’t care is that people aren’t on the Fediverse.
Block the main instances/ones publicly recorded somewhere. That would basically cripple it for most people.
Get a list of all mastodon servers from join-mastodon.org and ip-block them.
Nope
If only it was for the right reasons
It's for the Right reasons.
Sorry, I'll see myself out.
Hm. I want a plan for when this reaches the US.
Think they'll block P2P stuff?
Set up DPI like zapret
:(. Depressing
kinda jealous of turkey rn
"Dear @[email protected] - As I write this, I am very sad. Our democracy has crumbled...AND REPLACED BY THE BENEVOLENT GENERAL ERDROGAN. ALL HAIL ERDROGAN AND HIS GLORIOUS NEW REGIME!! Sincerely, LITTLE GIRL"
Honestly those platforms need to burn and be destroyed. Nothing of value to be found outside the few people that actually give a fuck making YouTube videos.
Maybe where you live. Massively popular platforms like these are pretty good at gathering people for rallies/protests and spreading investigations, news and fundraisers.
Best case scenario is people switch to decentralized media, worst case - the momentum for their rallies is ruined and ppl get arrested for saying the wrong things online. Then (most likely) these platforms get unblocked and everyone forgets about it.
Yeah, almost like entire countries communication networks shouldn’t be on corporate owned platforms in the first place.
Copiers and messengers are going to be useful again.
We could be so lucky...
Access is restored tho: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/115170319982458225
Weird move
It's either:
Either one is worrying.
It’s neither. They keep blocking (and unblocking) services tactically to prevent people organising protests.
please bring this to EU
The fuck will EU do? This is a domestic problem that will get exasperated by foreign intervention
Thats awesome