Turkish citizens easily circumvented Twitter Ban with Hotspot Shield

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Turkish citizens easily circumvented Twitter Ban with Hotspot Shield -

Last Thursday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has imposed a ban on Twitter. Thank you to technologies such as Hotspot Shield VPN, many local users have been able to circumvent restrictions and continued to broadcast their tweets.

Call of social media a "threat to society", Erdogan promised to "wipe out Twitter." He had already threatened to ban Facebook and YouTube as well.

But circumvent the ban is as simple as the use of applications such as VPN Hotspot Shield. After the ban was announced, the Hotspot Shield VPN application downloads skyrocketed in Turkey.

Within 4 days, Hotspot Shield reached 1.1 million installations, making it the most downloaded application in Turkey on the App Store iOS!

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Furthermore, over 800,000 users actively using the Hotspot Shield application by Turkey on a daily basis. Obviously, the Turkish government is losing the war on Internet censorship through technologies such as VPN.

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