Fighting
Turkey's Twitter Ban
With DNS Graffiti
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, 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. The Turkish local elections are only ten days away.
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Dear Dictators: Yes, Please Try to Block Twitter
On a typical day, Turkey ranks
**. 8 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, from sending tweets via SMS to changing their DNS to using a VPN or Tor
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