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Censorship of translation sites.
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1.       Gülümseme
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 05 Jun 2010 Sat 09:18 am

Turkey´s web users again bear the brunt of heavy-handed censorship as the Telecommunications Commication Presidency indefinitely shuts off access to several Google services, including ´Google Docs.´ The move follows the banning of the popular video-sharing website YouTube for alleged insults against Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
BAR: The Telecommunications Communication Presidency says it blocked access to some Google IP addresses ´due to legal reasons.´

BAR: The Telecommunications Communication Presidency says it blocked access to some Google IP addresses ´due to legal reasons.´
I don´t actually think its a major loss to loose google translate as it´s rubbish anyway, but I am surprised such high censorship is taking place.

Translation and document-sharing tools are among the Google sites recently barred in Turkey, which has maintained a widely unpopular two-year ban on YouTube for perceived insults against the country’s

2.       si++
3785 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 10:38 am

It´s a good excuse for Türk Telekom to save some bandwidth by banning U-tube. Personally I don´t use u-tube so that´s not a problem for myself but I don´t understand why google translate service is banned.

3.       barba_mama
1629 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 11:43 am

Oh, that stinks. I have to agree that Google translate isn´t the best translator out there, but it´s an easy tool that I use almost daily!

4.       Elisabeth
5732 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 05:04 pm

I think the translation forum is going to get very busy!

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5.       Daydreamer
3743 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 05:13 pm

It´s ridiculous to ban sites because of politics. Especially that I´m sure there are ways to find a way around it...

6.       lady in red
6947 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 06:48 pm

 

Quoting Daydreamer

It´s ridiculous to ban sites because of politics. Especially that I´m sure there are ways to find a way around it...

 

There are ways round youtube so there must be ways round this....

7.       angel_of_death
686 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 07:11 pm

Is it ok if I post a way to connect the banned websites?  Or is it not allowed on this forum?=)

8.       Trudy
7887 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 07:25 pm

 

Quoting angel_of_death

Is it ok if I post a way to connect the banned websites?  Or is it not allowed on this forum?=)

 

I guess it is. In the past people told how to use YouTube through a bypass. I don´t see a problem.

9.       angel_of_death
686 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 07:54 pm

I think that bypass is the same way I was gonna offer.  But changing the DNS settings seems to work for me..

 

Instructions in

 

English:

for XP

http://www.mediacollege.com/computer/network/dns.html
(use the first one)

or this

http://www.plus.net/support/software/dns/changing_dns_xp.shtml

 

for vista

almost the same as xp, but here it is

http://www.plus.net/support/software/dns/changing_dns_vista.shtml

 

for preferred DNS addresses you may use

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

 

or the one I´m using is

 

202.27.184.3

202.27.184.5

 

try doing it, click ok and restart your browser.  Works fine with my computer=)

10.       admin
758 posts
 05 Jun 2010 Sat 08:07 pm

Here is a funny caricature from Turkish humor magazine Penguen  mocking government efforts to block Internet access:

 

 

From now on Google searches will be done by submitting paper forms to a government office

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