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Twitter Blocked in Turkey!

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 21 2014, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-good-is-a-phone-call-if-you-are-unable-to-speak dept.

maratumba writes:

"Within the same day as the PM announced his intention to do so (previous story here), Twitter has been blocked in Turkey. Reports say that it is currently possible to circumvent the ban by using Google DNS. But the word is, they will not only prevent this method, but also block Facebook and Youtube."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by RobotMonster on Friday March 21 2014, @08:14AM

    by RobotMonster (130) on Friday March 21 2014, @08:14AM (#19253)

    I'm jealous. How can I get Twitter blocked for my country?
    And Facebook?
    I'd like to leave YouTube unblocked though.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Friday March 21 2014, @08:29AM

    by VLM (445) on Friday March 21 2014, @08:29AM (#19258)

    I'm willing to lose youtube in exchange for losing FB and twitter.

    I wonder if this is journalist babble for blocking any and all social media, because officially the only social media that exist are FB and twitter. OR is it specifically those two companies, which seems rather pointless once everyone moves to G+ and status.net or whatever.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 21 2014, @09:20AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday March 21 2014, @09:20AM (#19274) Journal

      In the U.S., all three are bad. They serve as propaganda platforms for corporate media and also as celebrity distractions from what Americans should be talking about. It's amazing how sites used as tools of freedom and liberty overseas are used as domestic tools of oppression.

      While Youtube does have decent independent videos, it too engages in censorship-by-proxy, and the other 99% of it is 15 year old kids playing Nirvana's "Come as you are" on the bass guitar. Good job, kiddo, you just learned the easiest song in the universe.

      All things considered, the "You" in youtube will eventually be the death of it. Try searching for "retards" and all you get are videos of normal people acting stupid -- despite Google's supposed technical search prowess, there are no actual videos of retards to be found via their search.