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This is what excites me about the future. As technology develops it will hopefully be harder to control information in a whole country.

Imagine if it was impossible for any government to block or censor anything.

In Turkey as in many other countries it's a case of a person takes control over the country through populistic propaganda, then censor all news. The only news available is the government approved news about how great the great leader is. The population doesn't speak English so even if they could get a hold of uncensored news from the outside, they couldn't read it. Absolutely everything that has to do with trying to protest the government or critique them, or being connected to anyone that do, will lead to prison on terrorist charges.

It's not that people want to live under oppressive maniacs, it's that the oppressive maniac is depicted as a wonderful great leader that fights for the small people like them and will make their country great again. So even if you hold fair elections, a huge chunk of people think the oppressive maniac seems like a pretty okay guy and will vote for him again.

As others have commented, it was just a matter of the ISP identifying all clients doing DNS lookups or connecting to the Bylock domain.

The government have complete control of all ISPs and mobile network operators in Turkey. They don't own them, but you can't give people Internet access without joining the government censorship/logging program.

As she was a teacher she would be employed by the government, and they just fire everyone employed in the government automatically when their names show up on the blacklist. I suspected firing of family members and friends that are connected to falsely accused person is done manually.

Also it doesn't really matter if the person is employed by the government or not. No employer would dare to keep anyone that is blacklisted as the employer would probably be accused themselves of helping a terrorist if they kept them. Plus, obviously, most big corps in Turkey are run by Erdoğans friends and family directly and indirectly.