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Because until recently they didn't achieve mass adoption.
I bet many more countries will fellow suit (maybe Brazil, Turkey, the middle east, some African countries, Russia, .... ) or try and throttle connection to push people to give-up!
I mean that would obviously be bad if more countries did that, but that's not signals fault btw
Not their fault, they can nevertheless make it sensorship resistant if they:
1 - stopped working on gimmicks and started rolling out usernames
2- Integrated a tor service for use when needed, or just route requests through Tor while Orbot takes care of the rest.
Turkey doesn't really care about this stuff. Even if they did it wouldn't matter as even the shittiest VPN on the market can circumvent their ban.
What do you mean Turkey doesn't care? Are we talking about the same Nation State that censors much of the Internet (including blocking access to Wikipedia), imprisons and/or executes journalists, mayors, union members, school/university teachers and ethnic minorities?
Of course they care about this stuff because Turkey is, like many other countries (including France), back on a path to national imperialism. They are rewriting history (omitting genocides) in order to promote turkish nationalism and expansion, and aggressively promoting military interventions to overthrow elected representatives in some parts of Turkey, as well as in kurdish regions in Irak and Syria.
See Censorship in Turkey on Wikipedia for detailed sources on how the government is trying to control the narrative. I'm just sad we don't have such detailed pages for all countries.
Yes. They don't bother censoring stuff like Signal because over here nobody uses them. Even if they blocked it as I said even the shittiest vpn you can find on the Play Store can circumvent their page blocking. It's not like the Great Firefall where you have to jump through numerous hoops to get around it. It is much easier to just keep people ignorant with a non functional education system that teaches nothing and promote blind patriotism by talking about the "good old days" when Turkey was the most powerful state in the world.
From my very limited understanding of the situation there, i believe their strategy is not to try and censor as much as they can, but rather to let people cross lines then imprison them on sight.
I heard stories (can't find link) where apparently political police knew people were using a VPN for quite some time and let them (to map their social network), until they were arrested and charged with the craziest accusations.
To my knowladge no they don't. However for example if you Tweet stuff they don't like for example they will kick your ass into the jail. Limited freedom of speech is pretty bad however Turkey also has more serious problems.