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The Turkish People React To The Twitter Block...
In the hopes of maintainijng his status quo amidst a plethora of corruption probes and allegations, Turkey's Erdogan has blocked Twitter after pledging to "destroy" the social media platform after troubling leaks occurred appearing to confirm his corruption. As one can imagine, the Turkish people (among others) are not happy...
12 milyon kullan?c?s? olan #Twitter'a eri?im engellendi! Dünyada sadece 2 ülkede yasak! http://t.co/6xxOdU7eVs pic.twitter.com/nbPpQi2jeg
— Radikal (@radikal) March 20, 2014
Anger fuels creativity in #Turkey over #Twitter ban. pic.twitter.com/h0dNuOYUQo
— Ayla Albayrak (@aylushka_a) March 20, 2014
#Cartoon Fake democracy EXPOSED #TwitterisblockedinTurkey by @RT_Erdogan! #ÖzgürTwitterIstiyoruz pic.twitter.com/ixXwLYoihM
— Carlos Latuff (@LatuffCartoons) March 21, 2014
Bunu kim haz?rlad?ysa tebrikler. Çok güldüm :) #TwitterisblockedinTurkey pic.twitter.com/wCVq6r2WU3
— 3rk4n H0c4 (@3rk4ny3silt4s) March 21, 2014
Alsana Montaj
#TwitterisblockedinTurkey pic.twitter.com/webEp85HJP
— Berkin Elvan (@15indebirfidan) March 21, 2014
#TwitterisblockedinTurkey pic.twitter.com/VYe6qIZm5F
— Simge Gungorer (@SimgeselSey) March 21, 2014
#TwitterisblockedinTurkey #TurkeyBlockedTwitter #TURKEY pic.twitter.com/zy9ze2p73u
— #cumartesianalar? (@cumartesiannesi) March 21, 2014
No drop in number of tweets despite ban, #TwitterisblockedinTurkey becomes TT http://t.co/Tb1eVI9Zl7 pic.twitter.com/jxzrTSFCkJ
— Hurriyet Daily News (@HDNER) March 21, 2014
The country banned from tweeting is also where users enjoy twitter most #twitterisblockedinturkey pic.twitter.com/4cZYa2dSBe
— beko (@bekirbasarozer) March 21, 2014
#TwitterisblockedinTurkey #TurkeyBlockedTwitter pic.twitter.com/OHGHZFJMcV
— sad but fab (@turnerisgod) March 21, 2014
Some have offered solutions and workarounds...
Kad?köy'ün yollar? DNS / While #TwitterisblockedinTurkey, take a look at the Kad?köy streets pic.twitter.com/doVEc4II26
— kaan sezyum (@kaansezyum) March 21, 2014
And Twitter itself helped...
Turkish users: you can send Tweets using SMS. Avea and Vodafone text START to 2444. Turkcell text START to 2555.
— Policy (@policy) March 20, 2014
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YOu so Twurkey
F*ck the EU...Comrades in Turkey should re align with Russia and gain real freedom from USSA.
Fark the TTT army:
twerkin tweetin turks
compliant lulu amelu sheep.
Let them eat nato rounds.
ZeroHedge is the Alarm Clock! WAKE UP!!!
If Erdogoon gets re-elected, they deserve him... just like WE deserve OURS. ;-)
Looney
completly off topic....mercer beats duke...
that is comparable to the people of the usa defeating the thugs that are abusing our lives....
Some pretty good photos/cartoons...I got a kick out of the Pac-Man (cresent moon) one. Good shit, bitchez!
Good satire is always deadly.
...this just in:
FLIGHT 370 UPDATE: FIRE ON-BOARD AND SUBSEQUENT CRASH WERE CAUSED BY THE MALFUNCTIONING FLIGHT DATA RECORDER, AKA BLACK BOX
Looney
Bird, bird, bah-bird's the word. Everybody knows that the bird is the word!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4
LOL! You used Russian and Freedom in the same post! Hillarious!
Ermahgerd, Erdogan! You dug up all the twitters!
Chinese Gold Demand 488 MT YTD, Up 29 %
http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/chinese-gold-demand-488-mt-ytd-up-29
He will squash that bird as soon as the bird lets him go.
That would explain his behavior. Bad memories from childhood.
Blow back is a BITCH... I do believe it ( the frogs) are jumping out and saying
Fuck you big time
Hope the coming protests will make the Gezi park protests look like a joke.
President "Raz a Gul" has also complained...via Twitter I might add.
It's not too smart for a politician to try to block Twitter for three reasons:
1. It pisses the people off.
2. It casts even more doubt on the honesty of the politician.
3. The geeks will work around the block anyway!
Hah! "honest" and "politician". Oxymoron.
"3. The geeks will work around the block anyway"
Until the governments and leaders who are the target of twitter truths, decide that if you talk ill of them, or work around the block, they will hook your nuts up to the nearest electrical outlet. Or feed you to the hungry dogs. Then you might be more willing to comply.
A honest person wouldn't assume some random famous person was honest for no apparent reason in the first place. Trust is to be earned.
Angry birds
My favorite was the last one where Twitter itself is instructing Turks how to use it on their phones and bypass the internet.
Hahahahahah....you've got to love nerds and geeks. Will he now shutdown celullar phone networks? What about electricity? A certain religious sect in the US tried to pull this trick off with their members and the result was the same: more people went to the internet to check things out and it backlashed on the leadership.
Hey, dumb a$$holes (banksters, politicians, religious sect leaders):
YOU. CANNOT. SHUTDOWN.THE.INTERNET.
WE (THE PEOPLE THAT VOTED YOU) will retaliate. Hard and fast.
This also goes to that Cameron Cunt in the UK. That guy needs to be cock slapped ASAP.
Angry turkey.
Oh this is going to be good.
<gets the popcorn>
So now we know who doesn't at all understand the Internet.
But, I think the list of those in power who do not is a really long list.
Can I have your baby U Cougar you. my goodness you have been around a looooong time. loven it
And Twitter itself helped... The Turkish intelligence forces to put tweets to specific cellphone metadata to identify belligerents.
Turkish users: you can send Tweets using SMS. Avea and Vodafone text START to 2444. Turkcell text START to 2555.
SMS are you fucking kidding me that is the worst possible way to bypass the block in the first place.
https://www.hidemyass.com/proxy/
Or as others suggested use 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4 as a primary DNS address.
Or fuck twitter and the horse it road in on. The second it became a publically traded company it became compromised only a matter of time now until it becomes a honeypot for agencies like the NSA just like google and facebook are. That is the lifecycle of these things these days.
Time to start migrating away from twitter for real social purposes like what is going on in Turkey and moving to platforms like this.
http://leaksource.info/2014/01/13/twister-decentralized-twitter-alternat...
Twister: Decentralized Twitter Alternative Built with Code from Bitcoin/BitTorrent, Lavabit Encryption Scheme, No IP RecordingMiguel Freitas, an engineer based in Rio de Janeiro, has started building a more secure and robust alternative to Twitter, making use of code from two other massively successful online projects: Bitcoin and BitTorrent.
His alternative is called Twister. It’s a decentralized social network that, in theory, can’t be shut down by any one entity. What’s more, Twister is designed to prevent other users from knowing whether you’re online, what your IP address is, or who you follow. You can still post public messages a la Twitter, but when you send direct and private messages to others, they’re protected with the same encryption scheme used by LavaBit, the e-mail provider used by Edward Snowdan.
Freitas and his collaborator Lucas Leal have completed a test version of the app that runs on Android, Linux, and OSX. Freitas has no plan to create a Windows or iPhone version, but since the code is open source, others are free to port the app to additional operating systems.
Other decentralized alternatives to Twitter and Facebook — such as Pump.io, Identica and Diaspora — require that you either operate your own dedicated server or trust someone else to run a server for you. Twister works more like peer-to-peer file sharing software: Launch the app, and it connects with other users. There’s no need for a central server.
It manages this trick through the bitcoin protocol, though not the network that actually drives the digital currency. Basically, the protocol handles user registration and logins. Just as machines — called miners — verify transactions over the bitcoin network to ensure no one double-spends bitcoins and everyone spends only their own coins, a network of Twister computers verifies that user names aren’t registered twice, and that posts attached to a particular user name are really coming from that user.
Posts are handled through the BitTorrent protocol. This lets the system distribute a large number of posts through the network quickly and efficiently, and it lets users receive near-instant notifications about new posts and messages — all without the need for central servers.
Freitas points out that if someone is monitoring your internet traffic — or mass monitoring internet users — they’d still be able to find your IP address, and suggests those looking for additional protection consider the Tor Project‘s anonmity software.
Good. Fuck Twitter.
Looks like if you want this generation to get off their fat asses you need to take away their most vapid form of entertainment. I just hope the Turkish people can find someway to occupy themselves besides reading what Kim Kardashian ate for lunch
I dont think you understand why Erdogan tried to block twitter in Turkey. Hint: it had nothing to do with pop culture tweets.
You dont say, Detective Dipshit? The point is its still passive. Look at the colorful screen and chirping sound as you retweet someones insightful 140 character political commentary. Its like those experiments with the rats who got an injection of dopamine everytime they pushed a button
Blocking twitter wont work. This dictator needs to do it like USA dictators and buy off the MSM and lapdog the press, give tax breaks to all the major info distribution platforms, put braindeadening programming on every TV channel, and give the sheepish populace obamaphones (or in this case ... ankaraphones), EBT cards, and 2 years of free pay to sit on their asses.
Then ol' dictator-boy can run wild.
Twitter is undermining the kleptocracy
How long until the West follows suit?
>undermining
I seriously doubt it. Twitter is a weapon used by the kleptocracy when it wants to target some country, or put the squeeze on...
Then why the fuck are they banning it?
The Hegalian dialectic, Problem, Reaction, Solution.
Oldest play in the book.
ori
Joey, you ever been in a turkish twitter prison?
The Turkish twatter prison would be more to my liking.
Do you eat oysters, do you eat snails?
The inspiration for that scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ0VSmkebwk
Oh rly?
https://twitter.com/kaansezyum/status/446940008843206657/photo/1
whowuddathunkit
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-21/turkey-pm-acts-his-threat-destr...
Maybe people will actually go outside their homes and start talking to each other.
The Twitter revolutions haven't worked out so well.
I see the structure of human society collapsing.
Ha!
That may help.
Respectfully yours,
A user of technology
So the US gets its panties all in a twist over Russia rather peacefully taking back territory that was historically part of Russia, but allows the dictator of a NATO country to kill democracy without a peep - or a tweet - from the White House or state Dept.
Kick Turkey out of NATO until they hang Erdogan.
Lol NATO democracy.
How many presidents of Italy have been "appointed" not elected now? 3, 4? I lost track of that joke a while ago.
Ah, but even when they're elected, there's always some house-clearing scandal within 18 mos. Berlusconi's been more persistent than most (not that it's a good thing--he's like Italy's Murdoch or Koch). The italians should stick to cooking--God, the food is fabulous there. Maybe they can be administered by the Swiss...
"Kick Turkey out of NATO until they hang Erdogan."
Kick NATO out of NATO.
Is this the same Twitter that people on here so uniformly despise?
I suppose the new internationally administered Internet will be chaired by a representative from Turkey's government...
Ha ha it's all Twitters fault.
With the criminal being reelected, expect promises of transparancy or a boot on the neck.
What is the trade?
MSM gets it wrong again. SHould read "The 1% Turkish people...Twitter"
the rest (Erdogan supporters) dont know the diff between a tweet n a twerk
The turkish people are OKAY with banning languages, torture and putting children in prison. The turkish peopla are NOT OKAY with building a mall in Taksim park or insulting "the turkishness".
This is actually a very good thing. The precedent set by Turkey will have broad and far-ranging effects on the internet culture.
It's long past time for these telecom and IT companies to realize that they are not in charge, that they are in fact subordinate to the men who hold the real power, the power of decision, command, and force. Ever since the mid-'90s these internet entrepreneurs have acted as if it were nothing less than their God-given right to refashion society any way they pleased, to alter the way people interact and do business, whether these changes were desired or not, whether they were beneficial or not. They raked in huge sums of money, often without a rational business strategy, by selling what amounted to little more than a vision of the future. What's more, they played up the myth of the underdog, acting as if they were setting out to return power to the people by dethroning the established gatekeepers in politics, business, media, and education, twitting the noses of the old guard whose very wealth and stability allowed them to grow in the first place.
The reality could not have been further from the myth. Not only has the spread of the internet failed to check the long, slow economic decline of Western nations, it has allowed precisely those elements of the old regime which were most odious to come to the fore and dominate. I am speaking here of the dehumanization of everyday life, the pseudo-automation of essential societal organs (such as banking) which really require trust and human tact to work normally, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of irresponsible money-pirates who sacrifice the long-term viability of the culture for any immediate windfall. The powers that be foolishly suffered this strange Emersonian Awakening/Rentseeking Psy-op to run its course, much to the detriment of the political economy of this country.
We will shortly have need of strong leaders willing to discipline the international telecoms; this is nothing but a prerequisite to reigning in globalism, which will soon become necessary in any case. The globalist free-money machine must be broken; its powertrain, the internet, decoupled; it's fuel, fiat currency, dried up at the source. Let us hope not to hear any wimpering murmurs about "democracy" and "free speech," for these are always the catchwords on the lips of rebels who, in there boundless lust for power, hope thereby to enflame popular passions against the solid and worthy. This was what they sold you when they proposed an "information superhighway." The NSA and slave labor in China was what you got. It is disingenuous in the extreme for anyone who was once enthusiastic for the internet to complain about its effects, that it has been abused. This sleepless eye, this wealth-sucking squid, is precisely what they wanted; they insisted upon it; they clamored for it with all their lungs.
I welcome this move by soveriegn states to fight back against this beast. The revolution has always been the exploiter of the people. The much-maligned monarch proves in the end their best friend.
MDB, what happened to your regular username?
While I agree with much of what you have written, I fear there is no puting the toothpaste back in the tube.
Oh, and Erdogoon is surely not society's saviour.
Oh-oh...
Erdogan just crossed a red line with this sledgehammer.
Barry, who ya gonna call now?
I've been banned from Twitter does this also count? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/youricarma/Miscellaneous/YouriCar...
You are a dangerous underminer of our freedoms, or something like that.
You, your alias, or your myseteriously hacked identity has been engaging in 'strange activity', on Twitter. Booo!
May I humbly propose a new form of protest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eni4MG98A78
Use your imagination.
Tweet, ergo sum.
Hohohoho
The choice of a generation!
(Retweeted) ;-)
Erdogan thought he was going to kill literally two birds with one stone. It turned out one was virtual and the other one was actually a country. Tough luck.
Messaging via carrier pigeon is now mandatory.
Stay indoors, remain calm. Do not panic...
Ah, the classic RFC1149.
Corruption charges are the TPTBs way of regime change without going to war. The TPTB have dirt on everyone. If the TPTB dont like a person. It's their trump card. Ask DSK or Julian Assange. Smearing dirt is the way of getting people. They are all dirty.
Should be in Turkey in a couple of weeks. Will show (the few Turks who do not know yet) how to use a proxy! Corrupt politicians should be disposed of.