[liberationtech] internet blackout in turkey?

[Ruben Bloemgarten]

We have reports from inside Taksim that yesterday 3G was unavailable in
Taksim itself, but telephony was fine. Simple moving to a street near
Taksim would reestablish 3G connectivity. It´s unclear if this is
intentional or simply the network being overloaded. Also people seem to
be removing password protection from wifi access points near Taksim to
facilitate connectivity. Webcams overlooking Taksim have been down since
yesterday, and as of today webcams overlooking Istiklal (big street
leading up to Taksim) are also down. http://tks.ibb.gov.tr/

- Ruben

On 06/01/2013 01:46 PM, Andrew Lewis wrote:
> I heard rumors, on reddit so take this with a grain of salt, that
> power was being cut off to neighborhoods with protests. As for the
> capacity to cutoff Internet, I suspect every country to have a
> contingency for that.
> 
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> 
> On Jun 1, 2013, at 10:51 PM, hc voigt <sozwiss at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Everything that is coming through along the hashtags #occupygezi or
> #direngezipark? is coming from outside Istanbul and lacks any new infos
> and pictures from within the city; or even from within turkey.
> 
> After having done so last night, I'm again observing for quite some time
> now again via twazzup, tumblr, g+, diaspora, ? and it looks to me like
> we face a complete Internet Blackout in/from Turkey.
> 
> Does turkey posses the technology, means and skills for that?
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> 
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