Turkish government censoring the internet - no access to Soundcloud


So, I went to log onto my favourite music website today. Soundcloud has a lot of my own music uploaded to it, plus it is a good way to interact with other music-lovers. This is my access to copyright free music that is not commercial and suits my taste.
I was shocked but not totally surprised to find the Turkish government have blocked Soundcloud. I used to use Mixcloud, but they blocked that too. Now I am unable to access MY own music or that of my friends. 

Music is important to me and what about all those musicians in Turkey that can no longer access their music or fans. I find the situation crazy.

Who is to say the Turkish government is not going to restrict Google again? A couple of years ago I had to use the TOR network to access my own business files on Google because the government had clumsily restricted Google DNS.

This is what you see when you try and access Soundcloud from within Turkey:

Bu internet sitesi (m.soundcloud.com) hakkında İstanbul CBS'nin 16/01/2014 tarih ve 2012/656 sayılı kararına istinaden Telekomünikasyon İletişim Başkanlığı tarafından KORUMA TEDBİRİ uygulanmaktadır. 

(The PROTECTION MEASURE has been taken for this website (m.soundcloud.com) according to Decision Nr. 2012/656 dated 16/01/2014 of "İstanbul CBS" has been implemented by "Telekomünikasyon İletişim Başkanlığı".)



Turkish government - shame on you.

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