Posted on 03/22/2014 1:08:15 PM PDT by markomalley
Earlier this week, the Turkish government blocked access to Twitter inside the country in response to a YouTube video that alleges Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s involvement in a corruption scandal. Citizens found a number of ways to circumvent the ban, but according to a new report, one of the easiest ways around the block is apparently no more.
The Turkish news site Hurriyet Daily News reported Saturday that Erdogan’s government has apparently blocked access to Google Public DNS, which Turkish citizens had been using to access Twitter, ban be damned.
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Google’s DNS service was not impacted by the Twitter blockage, so it allowed for an easy workaround for the ban inside Turkey—until Google DNS itself was blocked, anyway. And apparently, word about it got out. A widely-shared photo shows the Google DNS server addresses spray-painted on a building in Istambul, for example.
As of right now, it appears that other options for circumventing the ban—such as using another alternative DNS service or connecting through a VPN or a proxy server—still work, according to Hurriyet Daily News, so it isn’t quite lights-out for Twitter in Turkey. At least not yet.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
Maybe Putin can invade Turkey and bring back Constantinople.
“Maybe Putin can invade Turkey and bring back Constantinople.”
Constantinople. People just liked it better that way?
Sorry, had to do it.
etc/hosts:
twitter.com 128.242.240.244
...and we want to hand over internet administration to these kind of people.
I was just going to suggest that ... :-) ...
bash: cd: etc/hosts: No such file or directory
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