Turkey vs Twitter.

Un-known to you lot, the whole "life with bev" series, both video's on Youtube, this written blog and my Facebook have followers in Turkey. I have people who live in Turkey that i like to keep in touch with and of course that is mostly done these days on social media, such as Twitter.


Twitter for those who don't know is classed as a micro-blogging site, in which people can tweet about whatever is on their mind, what they're doing etc... so of course it wouldn't have been long before someone had a problem with this, only this time, it's the turkish government it seems.


Turkey's PM has basically banned twitter access for the whole of turkey. Now, how does the president of turkey still tweet during this time i hear you asking... well.... A block like this is only placed upon the Ip address' of the computer or device which is in turkey or turkey registerd etc.. however you want to work it... basically, if you're in turkey on a turkish network, you're not going to get onto twitter.... UNLESS you block you IP address, in which case, basically, the internet is yours... go where you will. So one would presume it's from a blocked IP or a network which is not taking part in this ban.


What about the people though?


Well, because the service is blocked, those who aren't blocking their IP address, won't be able to get onto any part of twitter, the service will just not exist in the country.


Is change going to happen?


Yes!


Already the turkish PM has said that the reason the service is blocked is because people are using it to basically, speak out against the government (now THIS is a violation of freedom of speech). He has agreed to allow twitter to carry out its service in turkey provided twitter has a legal rep in the country who can block the accounts of people who use the service to speak out against the government (STILL an attack on freedom of speech).


Luckily though, I believe turkey is due to vote soon for another government... i guess we can pretty much find the PM who's not going to be voted for....