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keraleda:

somethingturkish:

fastol:

thought you might want to check this out if you havent alreayd

Acarer also announced another project called “the Anaposta” - and it sounds much more ominous than a pre-filtered search engine. “The Anaposta” would provide email accounts - with a quota of 10 gigabytes - to all of Turkey’s 70 million citizens. “Every child will have an e-mail address written on his/her identity card since birth”, said Acarer.”So, will have a mobile network that can be used thanks to id number match and foreign networks, such as Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, will not be used anymore”.

sounds like fun. do the people know this is coming?

thanks to lt. worf from failed state oligarchies for this.  here are a couple of links with more information:

Turkey Tests New Means of Internet Control (english)
E-posta adresi nüfus cüzdanına giriyor (türkçe)

how funny is it that the turkish link no longer works?

it had escaped my attention, and it seems to be generally hushed up throughout the internet, but yes, it is known. (ekşide geyik dönüyo baya)

i just read a comment that since it has a large quota, it could be used for P2P sharing =)

as for this replacing other foreign mail networks, well, they think we’re not using youtube and last.fm either.(censorship.) right. how’s that going? yeah well, there is no way i’m giving up on gmail. and i don’t think people are going to give up on their hotmails.

even if this becomes reality, i think i would make a policiy of NEVER checking mine.

try this link. sorry, i think that was my mistake, not turkish censorship’s. it’s hard to imagine this is enforceable, i agree.  also, it doesn’t exactly function as a democratiser, to give everyone an email address, does it? it’s hard to give the government something to track if you don’t have a computer to use.

somethingturkish@tumblr

fastol:

thought you might want to check this out if you havent alreayd

Acarer also announced another project called “the Anaposta” - and it sounds much more ominous than a pre-filtered search engine. “The Anaposta” would provide email accounts - with a quota of 10 gigabytes - to all of Turkey’s 70 million citizens. “Every child will have an e-mail address written on his/her identity card since birth”, said Acarer.”So, will have a mobile network that can be used thanks to id number match and foreign networks, such as Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, will not be used anymore”.

sounds like fun. do the people know this is coming?

thanks to lt. worf from failed state oligarchies for this.  here are a couple of links with more information:

Turkey Tests New Means of Internet Control (english)
E-posta adresi nüfus cüzdanına giriyor (türkçe)