Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey

Re:Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in S... by journalctl on Friday October 11, 2019 @02:49PM (#21227224)

“Hey, Turkish ISPs? This is the government. We’re gonna need you to black hole some BGP routes or else. Thanks.”

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Re:Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in S... by rad_gruchalski on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:05PM (#21227401)

I’m sure this would be happening in any country. Even USA. I’m not defending Turkey here though.

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Re:Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in S... by journalctl on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:57PM (#21227851)

I just meant that unless customers were talking to satellites directly, presumably there would still be a Turkish ISP in the middle that would be able to route Facebook et al into the æther. But maybe I’m misunderstanding how Starlink works.

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Re:Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in S... by ericd on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:05PM (#21228459)

I think the current plan is for them to talk to the satellites directly? One of the reasons they're trying to get the costs of the antennas down to ~$300.

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