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Great idea, I was trying to figure out the story! I've read there's been an internal blackout -- the turkish media isn't covering the event.

Yes, I heard they also placed jammers inside the protest areas. I imagine this didn't help very much. I was unable to find the source again though.

Technology seems to play a larger and larger role in providing freedom by giving individuals a voice and the power to exercise it.

Jammers is not working everywhere. We can communicate. We rely on twitter/whatsapp/sms generally.

Hm, I saw the opposite. Mainly every time there was poor reception it was due to overloaded cells.

TurkCell installed mobile repeaters in Taksim square yesterday. Even in the most heated of confrontions I still had cell, data and voice reception.