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Twitter Blocked in Turkey!

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 21 2014, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-good-is-a-phone-call-if-you-are-unable-to-speak dept.

maratumba writes:

"Within the same day as the PM announced his intention to do so (previous story here), Twitter has been blocked in Turkey. Reports say that it is currently possible to circumvent the ban by using Google DNS. But the word is, they will not only prevent this method, but also block Facebook and Youtube."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by radu on Friday March 21 2014, @01:18PM

    by radu (1919) on Friday March 21 2014, @01:18PM (#19273)

    it is currently possible to circumvent the ban by using Google DNS

    This is going too far. Maybe it's ok "to google" something instead of "to search the internet" because Google had a great impact on how we expect to be able to find things online.

    Maybe I like gmail *that* much because of it's nice web interface, or I'm not able to configure my own email server, or I can't afford ~5$/month to rent a server - so I trade my privacy for the convenience gmail offers.

    BUT:

    What about Open DNS? Or *any* other DNS? Are we that stupid that we're voluntarily feeding Google data even when we don't need to? And advertising this to everyone?

    What'll be next? gTCP/IP?

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by wantkitteh on Friday March 21 2014, @01:35PM

    by wantkitteh (3362) on Friday March 21 2014, @01:35PM (#19282) Homepage Journal

    One would hope that folks reading this would know how to find other open DNS to use and it's certainly got the easiest IP address to remember and pass around, but never mind, here goes:

    Google Open DNS: 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
    OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
    DynDNS: 216.146.35.35, 216.146.36.36
    Verizon: 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.3, 4.2.2.4, 4.2.2.5, 4.2.2.6
    Level3: 209.244.0.3, 209.244.0.4 ...and about a trillion more for anyone who cares to Goo*ahem*search for "open dns server"

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @02:00PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @02:00PM (#19302)

      you forgot the important one:
      http://www.opennicproject.org/ [opennicproject.org]

      also you can use tor ...

  • (Score: 3) by Lagg on Friday March 21 2014, @01:47PM

    by Lagg (105) on Friday March 21 2014, @01:47PM (#19290) Homepage Journal
    Give me two nameservers that don't fuck around and return addresses going to ad-laden search sites instead of returning NXDOMAIN and I'll happily switch away from google's nameservers. I'm serious, please do. This is not a smartass remark. I really would use a better alternative. I'm not naive enough to think google doesn't already get domain data from the plethora of sites embedding analytics (granted, I do block it), but I do not need to make it easier on them.
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    http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿

    • (Score: 1) by Subsentient on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:01AM

      by Subsentient (1111) on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:01AM (#19536) Homepage Journal

      My ISP CenturyLink seems to be good about that with their DNS servers, also for $5, they give you a static IP on a consumer account, and allow you to run servers explicitly.

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      "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

      • (Score: 1) by Subsentient on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:05AM

        by Subsentient (1111) on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:05AM (#19539) Homepage Journal

        Of course, if you aren't their customer, they might not let you use their DNS.

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        "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

  • (Score: 2) by lhsi on Friday March 21 2014, @01:59PM

    by lhsi (711) on Friday March 21 2014, @01:59PM (#19301) Journal

    I read somewhere this morning (although I can't remember where exactly now) that the Google DNS servers were supposed to be some of the faster ones.