Re:Turkey kills school books, moves to tablet in all schools
by batuhanicoz on Friday May 18, 2012 @10:54AM
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I'm not talking about blocking a website country-wide.
TTNET (biggest ISP in Turkey, founded and formerly owned by the government) gives you username for your DSL line, its usually something like phonenumber@ttnet (or yourname@ttnet1). If your username is like that, you connect with TTNET's DNS servers and your only limit is the sites that are blocked by courts.
But, if you're a school, they'll give you* a username like "schoolname@meb", when you connect with this there is a special black list (which includes word filters too) that can't be passed with anything but proxies. And, BTW, "proxy" is a blocked word.
For example, you can't -even- search for "porn" on Google. I'm not saying you'll need to search for porn on Google in school, just explaining how this black list works.
* A friend of mine explained it to me like this, he was a computer teacher in a government school. Now the system may be changed, I don't have clue, but the block is still there today.
TTNET (biggest ISP in Turkey, founded and formerly owned by the government) gives you username for your DSL line, its usually something like phonenumber@ttnet (or yourname@ttnet1). If your username is like that, you connect with TTNET's DNS servers and your only limit is the sites that are blocked by courts.
But, if you're a school, they'll give you* a username like "schoolname@meb", when you connect with this there is a special black list (which includes word filters too) that can't be passed with anything but proxies. And, BTW, "proxy" is a blocked word.
For example, you can't -even- search for "porn" on Google. I'm not saying you'll need to search for porn on Google in school, just explaining how this black list works.
* A friend of mine explained it to me like this, he was a computer teacher in a government school. Now the system may be changed, I don't have clue, but the block is still there today.