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Turkey’s Twitter ‘Eradication’ Lasted Two Weeks
Twitter is back in Turkey after a judge in the country ruled that the blocking the site was a violation of freedom of expression, ending a two-week ban of the site.
The ruling comes soon after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the country would “eradicate Twitter.”
Of course, the ban did nothing of the sort, as dark net traffic spiked and use of the social network actually grew by 138 percent after the ban was implemented. Meanwhile, an app that circumvented the ban quickly shot to the top of the app store.
If Erdogan was trying to get rid of the “scourge that is called Twitter,” he did a really bad job—now the site is more popular than ever and the ban has been lifted, so no fancy workarounds will be necessary to access it. Soon after the ban was lifted, journalists in the country tweeted that they were using the service without a VPN.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/04/turkeys-twitter-eradication-lasted-two-weeks/
