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03-23-2014, 09:13 PM
Turkey Tightens Twitter Ban, Blocks Access to Servers
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Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) users in Turkey bypassing the country-wide ban (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) on the microblogging network may **w have an even more difficult time accessing the service.
The Turkish government appears to have strengthened its directive blocking local residents from using Twitter (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) as of Saturday by cutting off access to the service at the IP level,*according to the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/22/turkey-strengthens-twitter-ban-institutes-ip-level-block/).
See also: Dear Dictators: Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/dictators-block-twitter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
At first, the edict seemed to be enforced only by a DNS block, which forwarded users who tried to access Twitter to a**ther page. To circumvent the ban, many locals manually changed their DNS server, an act of rebellion that compelled many people to graffiti surfaces (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/twitter-ban-turkey-graffiti/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) all over Istanbul. This defacement advertised the numbers of the servers that could still reach the site. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/23/turkey-twitter-ban-strengthend/?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), Dns (http://mashable.com/category/dns/?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), Ban (http://mashable.com/category/ban/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Ip Addresses (http://mashable.com/category/ip-addresses/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/JVyjJkscB-o
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Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) users in Turkey bypassing the country-wide ban (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) on the microblogging network may **w have an even more difficult time accessing the service.
The Turkish government appears to have strengthened its directive blocking local residents from using Twitter (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitter-turkey-blocked/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) as of Saturday by cutting off access to the service at the IP level,*according to the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/22/turkey-strengthens-twitter-ban-institutes-ip-level-block/).
See also: Dear Dictators: Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/dictators-block-twitter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
At first, the edict seemed to be enforced only by a DNS block, which forwarded users who tried to access Twitter to a**ther page. To circumvent the ban, many locals manually changed their DNS server, an act of rebellion that compelled many people to graffiti surfaces (http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/twitter-ban-turkey-graffiti/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) all over Istanbul. This defacement advertised the numbers of the servers that could still reach the site. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/23/turkey-twitter-ban-strengthend/?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), Dns (http://mashable.com/category/dns/?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), Ban (http://mashable.com/category/ban/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Ip Addresses (http://mashable.com/category/ip-addresses/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/JVyjJkscB-o