[tor-talk] Tor (and Orbot's) growth in Turkey

[M. Yıldırım]

Do not wait 30 million user in any case, 44 percent vote gone for AKP (a
political party), which you can count those citizen as ignoramus. So the
rest may access internet somehow but most of it still won't need to access
restricted sites and will keep on his/her life. Most does not even have a
computer in a handy accessible location. Only a small percentage will be
there for example my personal guess it is about 10 percent of the whole
population. So personally speaking expect 7 million a maximum boundary.

*Cheers,*

*M. Deniz Yıldırım*

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On 4 April 2014 19:06, Joe Btfsplk <joebtfsplk at gmx.com> wrote:

> On 4/4/2014 10:20 AM, Nathan Freitas wrote:
>
>> Remember how Tor doubled its user base in Turkey in the last month?
>>
>> https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=
>> userstats-relay-country&start=2014-01-04&end=2014-04-04&
>> country=tr&events=off#userstats-relay-country
>>
>> Well, at least ~18,000 of the 30,000 were Orbot users:
>> https://twitter.com/guardianproject/status/452100420505059329
>>
>> which I believe was driven directly from the fact that Twitter for
>> Android includes very easy proxy settings, and that Google Play itself
>> was not blocked. There were a number of articles, tweets, in Turkish,
>> that laid out the easy process to install Orbot, enabled Twitter proxy
>> settings, etc.
>>
>> It would be nice it had been 30,000,000 new users (considering the
>> population of Turkey is 74 million), but it might be good to think about
>> Turkey's Twitter block as a "censorship-lite" event, not unlike the UK
>> or Indonesia, and then figure out how we can encourage more adoption
>> next time.
>>
> Given the backdoors apparently discovered in many cell phones, are they
> the best choice when incarceration is potentially on the line?
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