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Some people are reaching to really wrong conclusions from this post, so a couple of pointers 1. Gay porn is not specifically blocked in Turkey, porn is; so gay
by tawai 3y ago
Some people are reaching to really wrong conclusions from this post, so a couple of pointers
1. Gay porn is not specifically blocked in Turkey, porn is; so gay porn watchers would be mostly indistinguishable from any porn watchers via their evasion techniques
2. Not that it matters as you are free to be gay in Turkey
3. Not that it matters again, because access to blocked content is never prosecuted. No one ever receives letters from their ISP even for pirating
4. Calling the internet state controlled is a bit far imo, smaller ISPs don’t even apply some blocks and comparatively USDoJ can do domain seizures which is not too different from what happens there (websites being blocked via court orders and “administrative preventative measures”). Although I’d agree that the line for blocking is drawn too close.
5. I also wouldn’t call Mersin very conservative, the left CHP just won the municipal election with ~60% of the votes
One last thing, ISPs have moved on to using DPI to block websites so you might wanna suggest something like green-tunnel so they can up their game.
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoHave you registered just to say that everything is a-ok in Turkey? Not to be overly suspicious, but it sounds very much like government-sponsored astroturfing.
- tawaii2 3y agoI had just contacted hn support to de-associate my posts from my username so I’d feel guilty about posting with my regular account again. Now it’s only posting with throwaways that I don’t even keep track of the passwords of (hence a new username now). Everything is not ok in Turkey, there’s lots and lots of stuff that needs to be fixed re: gay rights and acceptance in general public plus millions more of other things which led me to leave the country; but having to hide gay porn habits from the government/my isp was not one of them. Again, it’s not Iran or Russia.