As we all know, Twitter is
one of the biggest social networking website in the world. However, it is
blocked in Turkey a few days ago. The reason they tell is, Turkish Government
asked Twitter to remove some content on
Twitter and they refused. Can this be the real reason or is there something
behind? What were those contents that they wanted from Twitter to remove?
In a way, Turkish Government tried to
took the freedom of the press. It is impossible to shut down communication
technologies like Twitter entirely. Community made movements to protest the
decision. Amazingly, usage of Twitter is increased after the ban. People who
totally far from technology and internet started to learn some ways to access Twitter.
One of them is domain name system,
shortly DNS. It is basically using the IP address to connect to the website
rather than using the name “twitter.com”. Unfortunately, Turkish Government
does everything to ban it completely like blocking Google DNS or the IP address
of Twitter. At this point, people started to use virtual private networks
(VPN). It is already used in business for security.
I want to say that, one big security
issue comes up with people’s clueless behavior. Everyone started to download
several VPN applications to their smartphones. All of them are third-party
software and not all of the third-party applications are reliable. These apps
could steal people’s private data. So be careful and check the permissions while
downloading an app.
Twitter didn’t make a comment about the
ban but it informed its Turkish users how they could send tweets via SMS. Actually,
Twitter is on the side of community.
Digital media has a big political and
social impact. It is a tool for those who are against the government to spread
‘contents’. It also makes it easier to share their ideas about anything. In my
opinion, Turkish Government made a bigger mistake by blocking Twitter while
trying to hide those ‘contents’. It created a notion that the government doesn’t
want the society talk anymore. I hope this will end soon.
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