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posted by cmn32480 on Monday March 19 2018, @02:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the semi-accurate-facts-on-the-internet dept.

The Wikimedia Foundation writes in its blog that even now, after ten months, the people of Turkey are still denied access to Wikipedia by the current Turkish government.

It has been ten months since the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. For almost a year, the 80 million people of Turkey have been denied access to information on topics ranging from medicine, to history, to current events on Wikipedia. After ten months, and in the midst of the school term, the need to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey becomes more urgent every day.

The blog post is light on information but does go on to mention ongoing efforts to negotiate removing the ban. Though mostly it concentrates on what the foundation sees as the benefits to lifting the ban.


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  • (Score: 1) by conn8d on Monday March 19 2018, @06:57PM (2 children)

    by conn8d (6887) on Monday March 19 2018, @06:57PM (#655064)

    Using Tor to access Wikipedia would be dead simple since you can just download the Tor Browser with everything already setup.

    Here is an article from last year talking about the Dark Web Version of the Wikipedia. It mentions Turkey.
    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4g4b/theres-now-a-dark-web-version-of-wikipedia-tor-alec-muffett [vice.com]

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday March 19 2018, @08:35PM (1 child)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday March 19 2018, @08:35PM (#655110) Journal

    Not really. Tor is blocked in Turkey, also. [turkeyblocks.org] You can bridge it, but then you have to know how to do that.

    Do you really want to try that in a country where abductions and police torture [hrw.org] have been reported to occur? (I'm not saying that this doesn't happen elsewhere - but it is not impossible that just having encrypted traffic might earn one attention that could be uncomfortable).

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    • (Score: 1) by tftp on Tuesday March 20 2018, @02:56AM

      by tftp (806) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @02:56AM (#655245) Homepage
      On top of all that, what value the turks will get at such cost? All their troubles and all their actions are within Turkey. It might be pleasing that other people remember them, but there is no practical benefit. They know perfectly well that a general strike will get rid of any dictator. But as long the country is divided, this won't happen.