Details of the police forces, criticism of the government: In Turkey the account of the anonymous user @fuatavni is no longer available.

Once again, Twitter has locked a dissident account in Turkey. fuatavni is for users from Turkey to reach only indirectly. Shortly before the election, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the anonymous account has apparently silenced with around one million followers.

As the BBC reported, is said to have publishedfuatavni details of arrests within the police. Who is behind the account is unclear, it is speculated about a connection to the Gulen movement.

Back in April, the company has two critical of the government accounts had locked together with a million followers for users in Turkey. Back then, Twitter had stressed to terminate user accounts only due to a “legally valid procedure” and not only “on request of a representative government.”

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Shortly before the Constitutional Court had lifted a nationwide Twitter lock, which had been adopted by Erdogan’s government. Because of the short message service is also opposition to organizing protests, various authoritarian governments try to tackle it. In Russia, about the censorship authority holds a lock on Twitter “practically inevitable”.

For two years, Twitter has a system that can be locked with the specific users in specific countries. In Germany, for example, the account of a neo-Nazi group has been made ​​invisible. Twitter wants to keep to the respective national laws to be not completely locked out.

Countries barrier can, however, relatively easy to circumvent. Who sends its Internet connection with another country, through a proxy or a VPN connection, the accounts can see anyway. (This also works the other way around, so that you can look at the Internet from a Turkish perspective.)

The operators of @ fuatavni have also pointed out some weeks ago to an alternative account: fuatavnifuat on @ weitergetwittert is, at least until now.

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