How about the Google DNS ban? I think that ban has way more impact on net neutrality. Banning a website, even though it's blatantly bad, is common practice in a lot of countries. Blocking a DNS is basically forcing people to use specific 'approved' services.
They are just trying to fabricate another reason. I don't think twitter ban will be lifted before local elections.
And according to twitter policy announcement [1], Turkish government asked Twitter to provide some credential information about some Turkish users. Nobody is talking about this in Turkey and government officials still defending their decision about their fabricated reason: impersonation and porn in twitter. It's already against Twitter's TOS, and I don't think it's true.
Well, it took them a few hours to block the site after they found an excuse. Let's see how long it takes them to restore access after this decision. It's been 7 hours and counting.
After the bloody history with kings who argued their position "came from God" and now islamist politicians in Turkey/Egypt, how about humanity get the message that "Being on a mission from God" is not necessarily a good thing outside of "Blues Brothers"?
Sorry for going OT, I am probably as fanatic on this subject as Erdogan himself. :-)
I'm a christian, and I'll take your statement a step further. Any ruler who publicly claims the support of "god" to justify their actions has given up the right to claim the support of the people. Especially if those actions serve to increase that ruler's power.
With a bunch of billion of people, there are certainly smart and competent people that believe in Santa Claus and can do a wonderful job in some subject areas, because they follow what Santa tells them...
Statistically, some of those guys can also be trusted with more general areas. How can you distinguish those? (Consider that Santa might tell them to lie to you when your hire/vote for them. Or Santa might change his mind.)
