Turkey’s government
clamped down on social media to restrict access to information
officials find inconvenient. It even
cut access to DNS servers belonging to major Internet
companies, such as Google, after people found end-running the
blocks so easy the Hurriyet Daily News referred to the
restrictions on Twitter and YouTube as “one
the most ineffective bans of history.” But Turkish officials
can’t change the fact that the Internet and related technology
specifically evolved to evade restriction and control.
Tor technology, which helps users evade tracking, share data,
and access forbidden websites, is once again proving a popular
means for online users to tell government officials to get stuffed.
Sure enough, Turkey’s government blocked the official Tor Project website in hopes of
limiting the spread of the technology, but hey, we’re talking about
the Internet. The Electronic Frontier Foundation
hosts one mirror of the Tor Browser Bundle and points the way to
others.
For users in Turkey who have already downloaded the Tor Browser
Bundle, censorship circumvention should continue without a hitch.
And for the users who have not yet done so, it’s not too late. The
Tor project’s website has many mirrors—copies of the website hosted
at other locations—that make the Browser Bundle available.EFF hosts its own mirror at https://tor.eff.org/.
Some other mirrors include:
Supporters of censorship circumvention can run their own mirrors
by following Tor’s instructions.
Innovation, frustrating one dumbass politician at a time. Well,
bunches of them at a time, on occasion.
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