⚠️ 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
Access is restored tho: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/115170319982458225
Weird move
It’s either:
- Someone bollox’d up and pressed the “block” button.
- They wanted to show it off to people as a “fuck you, obey us”.
- They were just testing it.
Either one is worrying.
kinda jealous of turkey rn
“Dear @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone - 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”
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.
Hm. I want a plan for when this reaches the US.
Think they’ll block P2P stuff?
Set up DPI like zapret
Copiers and messengers are going to be useful again.
please bring this to EU
The fuck will EU do? This is a domestic problem that will get exasperated by foreign intervention
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.
Thats awesome
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.
All Turkish citizens now required to broadcast their every thought and emotion on state-owned social media
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.
Turkey’s main source of renewable power is Atatürk spinning in his grave.
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 :
- Tax billionaires
- let’s create more common services for shit everybody needs (housing, food, insurance, etc)
- start setting up universal basic income for the rest
My previous comment was more of a way to commiserate about those services than offering the advice that This Is The Way.
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
I’ve restricted them in my home, as well. Is this a trend?
Only if your home is a nation-state.
“well my house is in a state within a Nation so check mate liberals”
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.
If only it was for the right reasons
It’s for the Right reasons.
Sorry, I’ll see myself out.
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. ❤️
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
Get a list of all mastodon servers from join-mastodon.org and ip-block them.
Block the main instances/ones publicly recorded somewhere. That would basically cripple it for most people.
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.
Nope
