⚠️ 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
    55•2 months ago

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

    • @pticrix@lemmy.caEnglish
      14•2 months 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
        10•2 months 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
          3•2 months 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.

      • GreatAlbatrossEnglish
        1•2 months ago

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

  • @Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42•2 months 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
    33•2 months 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.

    • UlrichEnglish
      3•2 months ago

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

  • @herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27•2 months 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.

  • VictorEnglish
    9•2 months ago

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

    • troed
      9•2 months ago

      You approve of a dictator blocking the populace from congregating?

  • @darkreader2636@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8•2 months 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

  • mesaEnglish
    7•2 months ago

    Is mastodon blocked as well?

    • @gnawmon@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      8•2 months ago

      how would they even manage to do that?

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

      • mesaEnglish
        9•2 months ago

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

        • SckharshantallasEnglish
          5•2 months ago

          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.

      • arcterusEnglish
        1•2 months ago

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

  • @BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•2 months 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.

    • @real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      9•2 months ago

      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.worldEnglish
        1•2 months ago

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