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03-21-2014, 05:43 PM
Fighting Turkey's Twitter Ban With DNS Graffiti
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When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he wold eradicate Twitter, he wasn't joking.
The Prime Minister's ****** issued a statement on Thursday stating that Turkish officials had "** option" other than to ban the service (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), which had been used to release damaging information about him. But the edict was met with controversy and retaliation, both from Turkish citizens and Turkey's elite, including its president (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/turkey-president-twitter-ban/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). The Turkish local elections are only ten days away.
See also: Dear Dictators: Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/dictators-block-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
On a typical day, Turkey ranks **. 8 (http://www.statista.com/chart/1642/regional-breakdown-of-twitter-users/) in active users worldwide, and the country's 10 million Twitter users would **t be silenced. Since the country's Twitter ban seems to be enabled by a simple DNS block, people are finding ways to circumnavigate the ban (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/how-to-tweet-from-turkey/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), from sending tweets via SMS to changing their DNS to using a VPN or Tor Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/twitter-ban-turkey-graffiti/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Turkey (http://mashable.com/category/turkey/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1395412533 (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1395412533)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/WwFftvR0NYs
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When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he wold eradicate Twitter, he wasn't joking.
The Prime Minister's ****** issued a statement on Thursday stating that Turkish officials had "** option" other than to ban the service (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), which had been used to release damaging information about him. But the edict was met with controversy and retaliation, both from Turkish citizens and Turkey's elite, including its president (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/turkey-president-twitter-ban/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). The Turkish local elections are only ten days away.
See also: Dear Dictators: Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/dictators-block-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
On a typical day, Turkey ranks **. 8 (http://www.statista.com/chart/1642/regional-breakdown-of-twitter-users/) in active users worldwide, and the country's 10 million Twitter users would **t be silenced. Since the country's Twitter ban seems to be enabled by a simple DNS block, people are finding ways to circumnavigate the ban (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/how-to-tweet-from-turkey/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), from sending tweets via SMS to changing their DNS to using a VPN or Tor Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/twitter-ban-turkey-graffiti/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Turkey (http://mashable.com/category/turkey/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1395412533 (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1395412533)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/WwFftvR0NYs