Turkish Government Closes Twitter-Ban Loophole as Elections Turn Violent

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The Turkish government's campaign to censor the web continued Saturday night after most local Internet service providers "intercepted" Google's Domain Name Service, the tech giant said


The move comes after the government blocked access to YouTube and Twitter in the run up to Turkey's local elections. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently said he would "eradicate" Twitter.


The contentious election turned violent Sunday, as people began to cast ballots, with reports of clashes between opposing sides resulting in eight deaths.


Google confirmed in a blog post Saturday that most Turkish ISPs had replaced Google's DNS. Users that access the servers would then find themselves unable to visit banned sites. Read more...


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