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History for the curious reader: The law passed months ago and all major providers are given notice last year. Any social media provider, local or foreign, with

History for the curious reader: The law passed months ago and all major providers are given notice last year. Any social media provider, local or foreign, with at least 1M daily user activity is required to assign a legal representative in Turkey now. Internet bandwith of non-obliging companies will be reduced up to 95% incrementally. Until recently, most social networks including Facebook were silent to this request. They now have representatives as well, alongside Microsoft and a few others.

Symbiote 6y ago
What is the 95% based on? Current usage? Or, just some invented number, adjusted according to Erdoğan's political requirements?
- dastx 6y ago
  Knowing the little governments usually know about tech, I'd say it was a random number chosen by a dice roll, guaranteed to be random.
- mrtksn 6y ago
  Good question. Here is the text of the law (in Turkish): https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2020/07/20200731-1.htm https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2020/07/20200731-1.ht... It says "the social network provider's band width to be reduced by ...%" I'm not a law expert but my guess is that they will send order letters to the ISP's and the ISP's will act the way they see fit. If Erdogan is not impressed, they will give the CEO's a call to improve the bandwidth reduction. If they don't comply, they will have hard time getting the permits to install cables or win government contracts, so they will comply. When a website is blocked in Turkey, it's up to ISP's to choose the blocking method. Some ISP's blocks are stronger than others(some simply block DNS and you are not affected if you use GoogleDNS or OpenDNS etc. others block the IP so your only recourse is to use VPN). Also, some websites are more blocked than the others(On the same ISP you can have some websites IP blocked, others DNS only).
- diegoperini 6y ago
  The rumor is it is the magic number that gives you a good enough page load times as long as there is no video content.
diegoperini 6y ago
Correction: Actual upper limit is 90% bandwidth reduction, not 95%.

Symbiote 6y ago

What is the 95% based on? Current usage? Or, just some invented number, adjusted according to Erdoğan's political requirements?

dastx 6y ago
Knowing the little governments usually know about tech, I'd say it was a random number chosen by a dice roll, guaranteed to be random.
mrtksn 6y ago
Good question. Here is the text of the law (in Turkish): https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2020/07/20200731-1.htm https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2020/07/20200731-1.ht... It says "the social network provider's band width to be reduced by ...%" I'm not a law expert but my guess is that they will send order letters to the ISP's and the ISP's will act the way they see fit. If Erdogan is not impressed, they will give the CEO's a call to improve the bandwidth reduction. If they don't comply, they will have hard time getting the permits to install cables or win government contracts, so they will comply. When a website is blocked in Turkey, it's up to ISP's to choose the blocking method. Some ISP's blocks are stronger than others(some simply block DNS and you are not affected if you use GoogleDNS or OpenDNS etc. others block the IP so your only recourse is to use VPN). Also, some websites are more blocked than the others(On the same ISP you can have some websites IP blocked, others DNS only).
diegoperini 6y ago
The rumor is it is the magic number that gives you a good enough page load times as long as there is no video content.

diegoperini 6y ago

Correction: Actual upper limit is 90% bandwidth reduction, not 95%.