Misleading title: "ProtonMail is being blocked in Turkey", it's not blocked in Turkey, but by one provider - Vodafone Turkey.
And for full disclosure you should mention that you work for Protonmail when you post here.
And for full disclosure you should mention that you work for Protonmail when you post here.
But it has been blocked at the request of the Turkish government. So it has been blocked in Turkey (a large portion of people in Turkey cannot access it -- given how popular it is), and also blocked by Turkey (since it was government ordered).
I'm not sure what your requirement is to say that something is blocked in a country, but far more than 30% of users not being able to access a site due to a government order sounds an awful lot like a "block" to me.
> And for full disclosure you should mention that you work for Protonmail when you post here.
The post comes from protonmail.com, so it's already clear that it's from a representative of the company. I don't know what additional steps you feel should've been taken.
Where is the proof of this? Where is the layer 3 evidence of showing that users in this AS can not route to Protonmail? These are things that are quite easy to demonstrate.
What did Proton Mail's ISPs say?
There's another very real possibility which is that Vodaphone's NOC will get back to you within 24 hours and help you resolve the problem. Such a time frame is quite common with large ISPs. The reality is that you are a small potato to them.
But I'm guessing that considering this possibility would stand in the way or using this as an opportunity to generate publicity.
Source?
https://twitter.com/okn_plbyk/status/973911230619537408
https://twitter.com/sahinn_oguzhan/status/974163059534106624
My other comment got flagged, so if I want other people to also reach out and submit stories, I have no choice but to repost yet another comment. This will be the last one for awhile.
If you have similar stories of abuse by the HN moderators, I encourage you to reach out and share them with me. Unlike pretty much anyone else, I happen to care a lot about this. This feels unethical, since there's nowhere else for us to go. We all helped shape this community into what it is today.
I'll be collating the experiences and posting them somewhere. At least people will know what's happening to those who participate on HN.
The mods' standard defense is always the same: We have more data. We know better than you. It's our job. You can't possibly understand and we certainly don't have time to explain it.
And the front page appears to work and the comments appear to be good on HN, so nobody sticks up or tries to change anything.
But that's little consolation to those who have to suffer the gaslighting effect of having their privileges passive-aggressively yanked from them without explanation, with no choice other than to grovel to hn@ycombinator.com or switch accounts.
I'm up to four others who have contacted me so far. It's taken months of effort to even get those few. But I'm convinced there are very many people in similar situations. We just never hear about it because you're not allowed to talk about it.
Also mods, if you're reading, fuck you for revoking my upvoting privileges. I did nothing to deserve that. Especially not for three months and counting.
EDIT: Just got a very interesting keybase message from a user who shares my experience. His voting privs have been revoked since 2014. Apparently I get to look forward to years of this, for reasons that were never explained at all. (I tried asking.)
If you have similar stories of abuse, I encourage you to send them over to me. I've been collecting them and will hopefully write ... something. I'm not sure what, yet. All I know is that we all helped make this community what it is today, and there's nowhere else to go.