• Land_Strider@lemmy.world
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    Just to make it clear, the VPN restriction in Turkey is not enforced, nor hindered. Of course it was put in place as a form of restriction against people’s protest organization via Twitter back in 2013 during the Gezi Park protests, but it is not enforced (at least widely, if at all). Even the leading opposition party has an official support for a VPN under their name.

    Nevertheless, as far as the map’s intent goes, it is an indicator of a dictatorship.

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      Pictures of playing cards on websites get entire subnets blocked for gambling in Turkey, so I’m surprised to learn they don’t enforce rules against VPNs.

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    2 years ago

    The same list as countries that you should never step your foot on

      • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        explain.

        turkey is just terrible. arresting tourists over the most simple thing, stupid eedo wife kissing tiny ppl thinking they are children, geocide against armenians and kurds…

        go tell me…what NOT to hate about turkey. small dick energy country like “oooh we wann be called turkyie or bharat but not turkey coz we so weak our finance minister has sex with presidents relatives…”

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      The Tankies are baned Russia, apparently they are subversive. It seems that no one likes them very much.

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      you can’t use VPN were endpoint is used read censored materials. If it’s within the country, than OK

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      Can’t speak for most of these places but I’m pretty doubtful in general.

      I have no idea what it means for VPNs to be restricted in Turkey for example… I use them almost every day. Personal, self hosted, commercial, corporate… Both using them while I’m in Turkey to get information from the outside and when I’m outside trying to get information from the inside.

      I’ve never had any issue using them. Like literally ever.

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        https://protonvpn.com/blog/are-vpns-illegal/

        In 2016, the Erdogan regime began blocking VPN services and Tor. Now Turkey is using deep packet inspection techniques, similar to China, to detect and block VPN and Tor traffic. 

        The use of a VPN connection in Turkey can also mark you out as a person of interest for law enforcement. Despite this, VPN usage in Turkey is quite widespread. 

        The website Turkey Blocks monitors internet censorship in Turkey.

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    Hey look, it’s the bad guys!

    EDIT: Not sure why OP downvoted me unless he’s a bootlicking authoritarian piece of shit.

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        Hello from Taiwan, while your heart’s in the right place this meme actually plays into China’s hands as it fits their one-china narrative. Taiwan considers itself an independent nation and hopes the wider international community will begin treating it as such.

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    2 years ago

    you copy pasted this from reddit

    it had no sources

    it is wrong

    you are a very bad person

    no one on Lemmy is disputing this map

    you are all also bad