Censorship: Twitter ban fares poorly in Turkey
Turkey’s prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, failed in an effort to shut down Twitter through a court order requiring regulators to restrict access to Twitter. Citizens were able to circumvent the blockage by various means suggested by an array of sources including Twitter and Turkish news websites. Turkey’s president called the Twitter ban “groundless, pointless, cowardly.” (The Guardian, March 21, 2014, by Constanze Letsch) Erdogan claimed that Twitter was violating the law that required the company