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Turkey bans YouTu be, Twitter Shireen Gul COPY EDITOR u'll 'l‘urkish government banned You~ 'l'ubc on Marc tirade a similar blackout ol' the social networking . less than a week after Ankara site 'l'wttter, \ h is estimated to have more than It) million lurk. h usei ’lhe shutdown came into reported ( mg just a Iew days before the muiut val elections were tak~ mg place nationwide, .~\ccording to the 'lurkis’h government, they have blocked You'lube as a re— 701th to the leak of a confidential conversation w ich was taking place between top government othcials discussing the probability of attacking their neighboring country Syria. the leak is “a def spicablc attack, an act of espionage," the Foreign Ministry says. However, turkeys 'l'wittcr ban is still going on, and it has at ected the social life of many people .is they were connected through 'l'witter. Although. the good part is that the block has tc~ tually attracted many people in the country to use ‘I'witter than ever b tore. NBC reported that “while 'l'urkish > idents w 're originally getting around the Twitter ban " their Domain Name '5} teni (DNS) settings, 1 ently the l 'dogan gov- ernment has been cracking down. lorcing 'l‘witter users to download mobile Virtual Private Network (VPNI apps or tweet via text message." 'lhe Christian Science Monitor c. lair this ban thusly: “'I‘urkey is a complicated country, , liberal youth. an . lives." largely split between a secul older. more religious consei Overall, 'l‘urkcy is a very digitally- connected country: Pew Resear i found that St) percent of't'urke 34 million lntcrnet users are on social networ s. It remains to be seen whether ban» ning social media weakens opposition or fuels the flame. On March 20, alter ’I‘witter was banned in the country, it offered a work around tor Turk— 1in users \ hich uses SMS me. aging. \Vithin less than 24 1 se 138 per- cent, accoi mg to St ‘ial media iirnis Brandwatch u s. 'l‘witter use in ’l'ur e) and \\"ei\reSocial. According to 'lurkish research group (ionzo Insight, th lion tweets from 'l'urkey from when the ban was '- were almost 3.5 mil- put in died to the next morning, setting records tor 'lwitter use in the country ’I wilterisblockediir 'l'urkev also became a global Twitter trend. (ioogle also oil-cred its own 'lwlttei' access backdoor: DNS addresses that "Ill viral online and on the str Immediately after the n. searche' for “DNS” in Int 9 boomed. But soon. the telecommun tion department executed a tougher ll’--level block, and searches for DNS tell oil. 'I his social media ban can be called “the Streisand etlectf' which means that when we try to control access to something, there are h gh chan tention to it. The move triggered additional public outrage toward the government and it made them move towards international condemnation. It is . that we end up bringing more at said that this scandal has grown into the biggest challenge oll‘ dogan’s tl-year rule. It has aflected the behavior ot the pub lic in the way that the) ave become aggressive to» wards their governments continuous ban on their social lite. Earlier. they had banned the use oi'alccr hol, then threats were given to ban Facebook, and YouTube W' . tional and entertainment blockage to many people, People have started to feel 1 lpless and have come out to the streets to protest against this imposed law. the i. ue has become a tug—ot—w once banned which caused educa- between Iirdogan‘s administration and Twitter. Some 2 ' million tweets were po ed within three hours of 'l'witter getting blocked in Turkey. lust before midnight on 'lhursday, r\ arch ' 2013. over 10 million users started wondering \ hy they could iot access the site, 'I'witter users were able to continue posting by changing their DNS on their computers or downloading certain VPN applications on their smart phone. Most people think that the Prime Min- ister did this on purpose because in the recent weeks, almost daily anonymous internel tapes of telephone conv sations were released which early highlighted that lirdogan was involved in rruption. 'lhe controversy over the ban has added to an already febrile atmosp iere ahead ot‘clections. with some rival candidates ev -n warning ol'armed pi‘ovocateurs and possible assassination attempts during the polls. Within less than 24 hours, 'l‘wtlter use in 'l‘urkcy rose steeply to 138 p ‘ent which is a beneficial eliect for the 'l'witter for dogan because he wan s to dis onnect the publi from the world. \ ch . sible in today‘s situation where everyone is well- ompany but not ol‘coorse. not pos- aware of their rights. I-Irdogaii has decreased his chances of coming back into yer, and by makingt is move he has increased his chances ot'bemg caught by t ie torces tor corruption. 'lhe people, especially the youth, are highly atlected by this ban because in this age, when they are told not to use something, they tend to use that more. People have left their houses and are on the streets protesting against the govern- ment, 'lhey are being abused by the forces" as well as mentally by themselves th king what might happen next. Their daily and personal lives are af- fected by this move; they don’t get to eat, sleep, or sociali ‘tl depression to many people and it may also hit the economy of the country because when people come out to the streets to protest, they won't work. - 1' cause