Turkey Tightens Twitter Ban, Blocks Access to Servers

Twitter users in Turkey bypassing the country-wide ban on the microblogging network may now have an even more difficult time accessing the service.

The Turkish government appears to have strengthened its directive blocking local residents from using Twitter as of Saturday by cutting off access to the service at the IP level, according to the Washington Post.

At first, the edict seemed to be enforced only by a DNS block, which forwarded users who tried to access Twitter to another page. To circumvent the ban, many locals manually changed their DNS server, an act of rebellion that compelled many people to graffiti surfaces all over Istanbul. This defacement advertised the numbers of the servers that could still reach the site. Read more...