⚠️ 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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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. ❤️
Access is restored tho: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/115170319982458225
Weird move
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.
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.
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Copiers and messengers are going to be useful again.
We could be so lucky…
Thats awesome
