Censorship and privacy

Censorship and privacy

Turkey blocked Twitter on Thursday 20 March 2014, after threatening to close down Youtube and Facebook earlier this month. Only problem is, censors, there are always ways to get around you.

Censorship has somehow come of age: there's no point in pulling the plug when all you have to do is target the attack. Turkey is content to cut off access to one of the most used domain names to break the means of immediate communication. Blocking voices, silencing the opposition and, ultimately, isolating.

But if Erdogan has cut off a highway, the back roads still exist. One example among many: IRC, the Internet's first instant communication system. 

Turkish Internet users continue to access Twitter, however, by circumventing the ban through other proxy servers and VPNs, a technique used in other countries where Internet access is controlled by the government.

As a result, despite Erdogan's announcement of the end of Twitter, tweets continue to rain down from Turkey. To follow them, some hashtags like: #TwitterisblockedinTurkey, #DictatorErdoğan, #direntwitter, #OccupyTwitter and others to consult in this Twitter feed.

Tor: the 95% of the iceberg exposed

The best-known software to ensure your anonymity is Tor, a network of virtual tunnels. It is a sort of IP address and identity scrambler. But that's not all: Tor gives you access to everything. Only 5% of web content is indexed and referenced, leaving 95% of the scattered data to be discovered, the Deep Web. A few articles to tell you more on Hitek.com, nouvelobs.com or citazine.com. What these sources have in common is that they insist on being able to access anything illegal with Tor. They forget to mention that the Deep Web gives access to a colossal amount of content of a different nature, most of it useless, and completely legal... And that Tor can allow citizens to bypass censorship and communicate with the outside world without taking risks.

 

https://info.arte.tv/fr/la-censure-comment-la-contourner

https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Nouvelles-technologies/La-Turquie-bloque-Twitter-2014-03-21-1123761