⚠️ 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

  • gezginorman@lemmy.mlEnglish
    37·
    10 days ago

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

    • pticrix@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      10 days ago

      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.zoneEnglish
        6·
        10 days ago

        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.caEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          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.

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    10 days ago

    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.mlEnglish
    22·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.mlEnglish
    19·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • darkreader2636@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    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

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      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.

      • Bora M. Alper@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

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