As of late the people of Turkey have had some problems with their government system and have been rioting against them. This has caused the government to begin to crack down on the people and begin taking away privileges. This taking away though has been going on almost since 2007 when YouTube was banned in the country. This has outraged many people in Turkey as you may understand. Here in America we have almost no bans on the internet which allows us to have freedom online and do whatever we want. We can go watch funny cat videos or tweet something ridiculous with too many hashtags, but in Turkey they use the internet for a few things that are a little different.
The people of Turkey have been coming together on the social network Twitter to form groups for protest. They would use the site to send out a tweet saying when and where a protest will take place. As the government became more aware of this they began closing off social networking sites to their own people to try to stop the protests. But there is always a way that some one finds that will allow the use of these restricted social networks.
Originally all a person in Turkey would have to do is change their DNS, their domain name system, to an open DNS outside of Turkey. Many used Google’s public DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) to continue using social networks. So people began to plaster the DNS IP address all over the place as seen here. Now these DNS changes are not working, so to get to the website one would have to use a VPN (virtual private network). A VPN allows a user to, in a way, trick any trackers into thinking that they are a computer in a different country with a different IP address. This allow them to use any site that is unblocked in the country which their IP is spoofed from.
Personally I think that it would be insane to have a government that tried to control what I do on the internet. Now there is the NSA but that is nothing compared to what Tukey’s government is doing to their citizens. They are trying to have absolute control over what their people are doing and that just is not right. People should have the freedom to express and do what they want. Nobody wants to be held back and people want their freedom.
