Social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey
from boramalper@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 14:03
https://lemmy.world/post/35622201

⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show online platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in #Turkey on multiple networks; the incident comes as main opposition party CHP calls for rallies after police blockade its Istanbul headquarters

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Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io on 08 Sep 14:39 next collapse

I've restricted them in my home, as well. Is this a trend?

Nougat@fedia.io on 08 Sep 14:40 collapse

Only if your home is a nation-state.

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io on 08 Sep 14:58 next collapse

Dang!

Nougat@fedia.io on 08 Sep 14:59 collapse

There's like an acre of land at the Alabama-Georgia border that neither state claims based on each of their border maps. Buy it, build a house there.

Boom - nation-state.

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 08 Sep 21:06 collapse

“well my house is in a state within a Nation so check mate liberals”

gezginorman@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 14:41 next collapse

it’s due to the government trying to arrest and/or impress the main opposition. it’s just arbitrary

pticrix@lemmy.ca on 08 Sep 15:26 collapse

Imagine if a people actually chose to ban those websites tho. I would start my journey to become a Turk. (♫ ff7 turks theme and snaps ♫) Unfortunately, Erdoğan.

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 08 Sep 21:06 next collapse

Imagine if a people actually chose to create and enforce rules to reign in these corpo owned services.

Banning shit is the opposite of what works.

Now if you wanna do this without a ban or rules you just gotta let them do it to themselves with ads. All platforms are seeing large declines and it seems to coincide with increases in ads

pticrix@lemmy.ca on 08 Sep 21:30 collapse

oh yeah most definitely and I agree. My real serious positions are :

  • Tax billionaires
  • let’s create more common services for shit everybody needs (housing, food, insurance, etc)
  • start setting up universal basic income for the rest

My previous comment was more of a way to commiserate about those services than offering the advice that This Is The Way.

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk on 09 Sep 09:25 collapse

Turkey’s main source of renewable power is Atatürk spinning in his grave.

victorz@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 15:12 next collapse

What a good opportunity for some mindfulness for the Turks. Maybe.

troed@fedia.io on 08 Sep 15:36 collapse

You approve of a dictator blocking the populace from congregating?

victorz@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 18:21 collapse

I was being facetious. ❤️

mesamunefire@piefed.social on 08 Sep 15:47 next collapse

Is mastodon blocked as well?

gnawmon@ttrpg.network on 08 Sep 16:17 next collapse

how would they even manage to do that?

i don’t think thet can block every single instance on the internet

mesamunefire@piefed.social on 08 Sep 16:22 next collapse

Hense why I'm asking. Its a good indicator if federation can truely work or not in response to these kind if situations.

balder1991@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 18:07 collapse

They’d probably spend resources on that if there was a critical mass of people. The reason they don’t care is that people aren’t on the Fediverse.

arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone on 09 Sep 02:45 next collapse

Block the main instances/ones publicly recorded somewhere. That would basically cripple it for most people.

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml on 09 Sep 06:58 collapse

Get a list of all mastodon servers from join-mastodon.org and ip-block them.

Ugurcan@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 18:38 collapse

Nope

Lojcs@piefed.social on 08 Sep 17:10 next collapse

:(. Depressing

[deleted] on 09 Sep 07:17 collapse

.

Supervisor194@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 17:44 next collapse

Ironic that the only way to get a government to put the screws to billionaires and their shit platforms is to threaten the hegemony of the party that used the very same platforms to ratfuck their way to the top.

themurphy@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 17:59 next collapse

Even though it would be better for the world if everyone blocked that shit (maybe except YouTube, as it got its use cases), but they blocked it for all the wrong reasons.

They dont give a shit about well-being or standing up to big tech. They just want all ideas of an opposition to dissapear.

They are silencing free speech - at least that’s the goal.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 08 Sep 21:03 collapse

All Turkish citizens now required to broadcast their every thought and emotion on state-owned social media

mrdown@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 18:23 next collapse

If only it was for the right reasons

DannyMac@sh.itjust.works on 08 Sep 20:19 collapse

It’s for the Right reasons.

Sorry, I’ll see myself out.

BroBot9000@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 18:40 next collapse

Honestly those platforms need to burn and be destroyed. Nothing of value to be found outside the few people that actually give a fuck making YouTube videos.

real_squids@sopuli.xyz on 08 Sep 19:12 next collapse

Nothing of value to be found outside the few people that actually give a fuck making YouTube videos

Maybe where you live. Massively popular platforms like these are pretty good at gathering people for rallies/protests and spreading investigations, news and fundraisers.

Best case scenario is people switch to decentralized media, worst case - the momentum for their rallies is ruined and ppl get arrested for saying the wrong things online. Then (most likely) these platforms get unblocked and everyone forgets about it.

BroBot9000@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 00:12 collapse

Yeah, almost like entire countries communication networks shouldn’t be on corporate owned platforms in the first place.

[deleted] on 09 Sep 07:19 collapse

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darkreader2636@lemmy.zip on 08 Sep 20:28 next collapse

So there are 3 main ISP’s in Turkey Türk Telekom, Vodafone and Turkcell. From my testings Vodafone(dsl) is fine but Turkcell(cellular) seems to block those sites. Most weird of all (at least in my case) Vodafone uses Türk Telekom’s backbone and distrubiton but it doesn’t get affected by these blocks

Baggie@lemmy.zip on 09 Sep 01:04 collapse

Is it literally just DNS filtering? If you change your phone DNS it might just straight up work again.

darkreader2636@lemmy.zip on 09 Sep 14:00 collapse

Nope it isn’t arinc9 did an pretty in depth analysis (https://arinc9.notion.site/Turkey-s-ISPs-Analysis) but it can be circumvated with software like v2ray and wireguard

Ulrich@feddit.org on 08 Sep 21:04 next collapse

We could be so lucky…

twice_hatch@midwest.social on 09 Sep 06:46 next collapse

Hm. I want a plan for when this reaches the US.

Think they’ll block P2P stuff?

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online on 09 Sep 08:17 collapse

Set up DPI like zapret

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml on 09 Sep 06:57 next collapse

This is very easy to bypass and we the Turks are very good at anti-censorship practices after 25 years of AKP rule. The bigger problem is Meta/Google/X censoring content on government orders.

NoodlePoint@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 07:05 next collapse

Copiers and messengers are going to be useful again.

Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 07:16 next collapse

Thats awesome

blinfabian@feddit.nl on 09 Sep 07:33 next collapse

please bring this to EU

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online on 09 Sep 08:17 collapse

The fuck will EU do? This is a domestic problem that will get exasperated by foreign intervention

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone on 09 Sep 09:55 next collapse

kinda jealous of turkey rn

Siegfried@lemmy.world on 09 Sep 11:05 collapse

“Dear @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone - As I write this, I am very sad. Our democracy has crumbled…AND REPLACED BY THE BENEVOLENT GENERAL ERDROGAN. ALL HAIL ERDROGAN AND HIS GLORIOUS NEW REGIME!! Sincerely, LITTLE GIRL”

Fijxu@programming.dev on 09 Sep 11:33 collapse

Access is restored tho: mastodon.social/@netblocks/115170319982458225

Weird move

abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Sep 11:56 collapse

It’s either:

  1. Someone bollox’d up and pressed the “block” button.
  2. They wanted to show it off to people as a “fuck you, obey us”.
  3. They were just testing it.

Either one is worrying.

boramalper@lemmy.world on 12 Sep 19:58 collapse

It’s neither. They keep blocking (and unblocking) services tactically to prevent people organising protests.