Turkish Prime Minister Bans Twitter... Turkish People Turn Around And Ban The Ban
Found on Techdirt on Friday, 21 March 2014
Turkish ISPs followed the orders to block Twitter, but so far, it's not the power of the Turkish Republic we're seeing, but the power of people and technology to route around attempts at censorship. Many people quickly turned to VPNs or realized that they could still Tweet via text message... or that they could use alternative DNS providers.
Turkey's (less powerful) President, Abdullah Gul has been fighting back against these censorship attempts, and even went so far as to get around the ban himself to tweet against the ban and his tweet quickly was retweeted thousands of times.
With Erdogan in charge, Turkey will get nowhere. It's so obvious that he only wanted Twitter banned because people keep talking about all the corruption surrounding him and his family.