Turkey's Twitter ban has been overturned(engadget.com)
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Turkey's Twitter ban has been overturned
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/26/turkey-court-refuses-to-uphold-erdogan-twitter-ban/
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How about the Google DNS ban? I think that ban has way more impact on net neutrality. Banning a website, even though it's blatantly bad, is common practice in a lot of countries. Blocking a DNS is basically forcing people to use specific 'approved' services.
The Google DNS ban was lifted in 3 hours.
They are just trying to fabricate another reason. I don't think twitter ban will be lifted before local elections.
And according to twitter policy announcement [1], Turkish government asked Twitter to provide some credential information about some Turkish users. Nobody is talking about this in Turkey and government officials still defending their decision about their fabricated reason: impersonation and porn in twitter. It's already against Twitter's TOS, and I don't think it's true.
1: https://twitter.com/policy/status/448108964480569344
And according to twitter policy announcement [1], Turkish government asked Twitter to provide some credential information about some Turkish users. Nobody is talking about this in Turkey and government officials still defending their decision about their fabricated reason: impersonation and porn in twitter. It's already against Twitter's TOS, and I don't think it's true.
1: https://twitter.com/policy/status/448108964480569344
Well, it took them a few hours to block the site after they found an excuse. Let's see how long it takes them to restore access after this decision. It's been 7 hours and counting.
As a hard line atheist:
After the bloody history with kings who argued their position "came from God" and now islamist politicians in Turkey/Egypt, how about humanity get the message that "Being on a mission from God" is not necessarily a good thing outside of "Blues Brothers"?
Sorry for going OT, I am probably as fanatic on this subject as Erdogan himself. :-)
Edit: English grammar.
After the bloody history with kings who argued their position "came from God" and now islamist politicians in Turkey/Egypt, how about humanity get the message that "Being on a mission from God" is not necessarily a good thing outside of "Blues Brothers"?
Sorry for going OT, I am probably as fanatic on this subject as Erdogan himself. :-)
Edit: English grammar.
I'm a christian, and I'll take your statement a step further. Any ruler who publicly claims the support of "god" to justify their actions has given up the right to claim the support of the people. Especially if those actions serve to increase that ruler's power.
Agreed. My formulation also included people that "know" what god's will is.
Not every view of God is the same. There are surely counterexamples (Blues Brothers aside).
Let me put it like this...
With a bunch of billion of people, there are certainly smart and competent people that believe in Santa Claus and can do a wonderful job in some subject areas, because they follow what Santa tells them...
Statistically, some of those guys can also be trusted with more general areas. How can you distinguish those? (Consider that Santa might tell them to lie to you when your hire/vote for them. Or Santa might change his mind.)
With a bunch of billion of people, there are certainly smart and competent people that believe in Santa Claus and can do a wonderful job in some subject areas, because they follow what Santa tells them...
Statistically, some of those guys can also be trusted with more general areas. How can you distinguish those? (Consider that Santa might tell them to lie to you when your hire/vote for them. Or Santa might change his mind.)
Maybe they released the old saying, "If there's a will, there's a way."
People were going to bypass the blocks one way or another. Good to see the Turks are "restoring" this...whatever that means and however long it takes.
People were going to bypass the blocks one way or another. Good to see the Turks are "restoring" this...whatever that means and however long it takes.
Twitter blocked in just a few hours but not restored since morning. (it's 15:00 in Turkey)
It's reported that Twitter themselves are censoring some accounts for Turkish IPs.
nice: "@oyyokhirsiza's account has been withheld in: Turkey". It's not censorship, it's just withholding