Turkey Heightens Twitter Censorship with Mandated IP Blocking

[DamianTV]

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/...-twitter-censorship-with-mandated-ip-blocking

The Net may have briefly routed around Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan's DNS-based anti-Twitter censorship, but the minister's next move has been to mandate that Turkish ISPs block Twitter's assigned IP addresses. Reports Ars Technica:

" This move essentially erases Twitter from the Internet within Turkey—at least to those people who don’t have access to SMS messaging, a foreign virtual private network or Web proxy service, or the Tor anonymizing network. 'We can confirm that Turkey is now blocking the IP addresses of Twitter after the previous DNS blocking technique proved ineffective,' said Doug Madory, of the Internet monitoring company Renesys, in an e-mail to Ars. A Turkish government webpage shows that there is an IP address block order in effect for 199.16.156.6, the primary IP address for twitter.com."

 

[GunnyFreedom]

"ally."

 

[GunnyFreedom]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2833996/posts

 

[pcosmar]

So my first question is,, what do they not want known?

(a rhetorical question since they are actively aiding the overthrow of Syria)

 

[specsaregood]

So my first question is,, what do they not want known?
(a rhetorical question since they are actively aiding the overthrow of Syria)

Well this bit isn't popular with the populace:
http://revolution-news.com/erdogan-...phone-conversations-real-warns-world-leaders/

In the first released voice recording, Erdoğan and his son Bilal discuss during five wiretapped phone conversations on plans how to hide huge sums of cash on the day when police raided a number of venues as part of a corruption investigation that has implicated sons of three Turkish ministers, businessmen and chief of the state bank. At the beginning of the phone conversation, the prime minister briefs his son Bilal about the raid and asks him to “zero” the amount (at least $1 billion cash) stashed at five houses. Video with English Transcript

Erdoğan faces one of the biggest crises in the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) 11-year rule and has proclaimed that the upcoming local elections on March 30 will be his party’s most important test.

elections 1 week away, I'm guessing the internet helps his opposition more than him.

 

[pcosmar]

Well this bit isn't popular with the populace:
http://revolution-news.com/erdogan-...phone-conversations-real-warns-world-leaders/


elections 1 week away, I'm guessing the internet helps his opposition more than him.

No doubt,,
Seems the place could use a change of diaper.

How much worse is the next guy?

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan stated the reason to shutdown twitter was for "Safety and Security measures"... now does that sound familiar?

BTW, don't buy into the the BS press releases by Yahoo-ABC News, et al... they're all sugar coating Erdogan's demonic measures and the overstating of support.


Basically the same reporting bias propaganda like from the Ukraine.

 

[pcosmar]

Basically the same reporting bias propaganda like from the Ukraine.

Well,, Ukraine was just an extension of this shit anyway.
Seems that a renewed push is on, on this front.