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Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by 80801 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:18AM (#12670608)
It seems like the turkish government is trying to create jobs here. Building a "nationalised turkish twitter alternative"? The way things are right now, they need a nationalized turkish github service first.
Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by h1d on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:22AM (#12670618)
National Turkish government alternative may be a solution.
Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by tajen on Sunday October 09, 2016 @01:36PM (#12672248)
Actually, it's not acceptable from a national security standpoint to massively let a country's citizen flock on US services, at least as long as the NSA/CIA exists. The internet does need much more competition on all continents, including for webmail services. For example I don't see why my government (in Europe) should accept tax reports with a US email (because everybody has @gmail.com or @hotmail.com) – Why not at this point go all the way and delegate our tax collection to the American IRS...

On the other hand it has to go towards privacy, choice and democracy. Obviously cutting your citizen from the international websites is the one wrong way to stem local competition...

Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by bbcbasic on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:29AM (#12670645)
Or a decentralized github service ;-)
Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by fooker on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:47AM (#12670687)
Maybe a distributed version control system to power it? ;)
Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by cschmittiey on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:37AM (#12671135)
You mean something like this?

https://github.com/clehner/git-ssb

Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by tf2manu994 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:51AM (#12671168)
I think the joke was that git is distributed already
Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by bbcbasic on Sunday October 09, 2016 @08:14PM (#12674287)
Yes but I feel the joke is on me as some kind of hosting makes discovery at lot easier.
Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by hollander on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:43AM (#12670679)
I think decentralizing government is easier and better.
Re:Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in T... by feklar on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:21PM (#12672881)
This is what I first think of when a government makes up excuses to block a foreign service, they are just trying to promote their own local services like Baidu/Sina Weibo in China.