Turkish PM Erdoğan blocks Twitter

Sideroxylon said:
This is all very frustrating:

Turkey hijacks servers in social media crackdown
Turkey has started hijacking net addresses as it steps up attempts to block access to social media.

Addresses belonging to Google, Level 3 and OpenDNS have all been hijacked by order of the Turkish government.

The hijack means that people using those addresses to reach Twitter or YouTube can no longer get through.

Net monitoring firms said the hijack was "concerning" and would let the government log who was trying to get round its controls.​

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26818104
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The BPGmon blogpost linked to gives more details. The ISPs - or at least Turk Telekom - have modified their own DNS servers, where the DNS requests directed at the Google, OpenDNS and Level3 DNS servers now end up:
The output above shows that IP address returned by the ‘fake’ Google DNS server on 8.8.8.8 is 195.175.254.2. This IP is a machine on Turk Telekom and not a real Youtube server. Interestingly the returned IP is the same IP address where we’ve seen Twitter.com traffic for users in Turkey redirected to since last week.
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Interestingly, I tried the above IP address in my browser, but it doesn't give me anything.

The upside to this is, that anyone who is a bit technical can simply set up their own DNS server and contact the root servers directly. The overhead is marginal, at least for private use.

According to Google, most Turkish ISPs do this. WTH can the government order them to do all this stuff, without court order, and WTH do they comply?
 
My son helps me out with DNS setup and we will just keep hopping around as they block them. We are not sure at all what powers the government has over the ISPs to do this. You would think that some sort of court order is required. I'll let you know if I find anything in the local press.
 
At least this is a powerful illustration of the "but what if the government goes rogue" counter-argument against the moronic "I have nothing to hide" cop-out.
 
Childlike Empress said:
At least this is a powerful illustration of the "but what if the government goes rogue" counter-argument against the moronic "I have nothing to hide" cop-out.
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I don't quite see the "I have nothing to hide" part here. It's a government cracking down on free (political) speech. But, the net being the net, it can be subverted. See members-only thread.
 
I don't know why Erdogan was so worried, Bush/Cheney started a war based on false pretenses and got reelected no problem! He should have just started the war sooner then told his people not to change horses in the middle of the stream.
 
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