Less than a week after the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan banned Twitter in the country, a Turkish court suspended the ban and stated that the ban was illegal.
Readwrite reported that Erdogan raised an issue with Twitter and banned the service since Twitter failed to remove the allegations of the government corruption from the social networking site. People in Turkey will have to wait for Twitter’s services to be restored until the court’s order reaches the communication authority of Turkey.
The social networking website had posted anonymous recordings which alleged corruption inside the Turkish government. This caused a stir, which led the prime minister to ban the service. He “promised” to “eradicate” it from the country.
Readwrite also reported that ‘Even when the Twitter ban was in place, it wasn't able to silence Turkish citizens. Users circumvented the ban by accessing Twitter through virtual private networks (VPNs) and programs like Tor that use cryptography to mask a computer's location.’
Last week's ban was based on three court orders, which instructed Twitter to take off the content from the site. Twitter says that they were not provided to them prior to the blackout period. Twitter also said that it complied with two of the three orders. The third order was concerning since it stifled political speech, which is why Twitter petitioned the Turkish court on behalf of users to reverse it.
Twitter used the “Country Withheld Content” tool to block Twitter accounts based in Turkey. The blocked content is visible to the rest of the world, outside of Turkey.
