Turkish President slams Twitter block as 'unacceptable'

[smurfy]

[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73723000/jpg/_73723421_dns-crop.jpg[/img]
[I]DNS details that could be used to bypass the ban were spray-painted on to a wall in Istanbul[/I]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26681236[/url]
[quote]President Abdullah Gul has challenged a ban on Twitter in Turkey after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to "wipe out" the micro-blogging service.

Twitter users across the country reported that the site had been blocked on Thursday.

But like many others, President Gul evaded the ban to tweet that the "shutdown was unacceptable."

Mr Erdogan is angry that people used Twitter to spread allegations of corruption in his inner circle.[/quote]

[Valiantttt]

[B]Mr Erdogan is angry that people used Twitter to spread allegations of corruption in his inner circle.[/B]
YEAH! Allegations whilst everyone already knows about the corruption.

[Elecbullet]

I'm happy cause I recognize those IPs!

[Camundongo]

I head about this on the radio, it was probably the least effective block ever. People just switched to Facebook to tell other people how to get round the block, then switched back to Twitter.

[Killuah]

Google DNS servers? What kind of schlocky blockade do they have when all you have to do is change your DNS?

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=Killuah;44313437]Google DNS servers? What kind of schlocky blockade do they have when all you have to do is change your DNS?[/QUOTE]

blocking on DNS level instead of IP level.

AFAIK UK isp's do that aswell to block thepiratebay.

[Wiggles]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;44313565]blocking on DNS level instead of IP level.

AFAIK UK isp's do that aswell to block thepiratebay.[/QUOTE]

Virgin Media block on an IP level.

[Rangergxi]

That Prime Minister is probably just corrupt.

[Angua]

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;44313955]That Prime Minister is probably just corrupt.[/QUOTE]

probably? He is, it's public knowledge at this point.

[Silentfood]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;44313565]blocking on DNS level instead of IP level.

AFAIK UK isp's do that aswell to block thepiratebay.[/QUOTE]

Most ISP's block on an IP level.