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They should be able to watch Twitter's frontend address and ban it accordingly.

It's the government. First they'll have to write a contract. Then they'll have to solicit bids. Then...

Meanwhile, Twitter has highly-experienced software engineers and system administrators on staff.

Turkish government is not a typical government in that regard. It's more like an oligarchy where some chosen people can get things done with a simple call in minutes. An example: There is a "Ministry of Telecommunication and Communication" (TİB) and the president of TİB, solely by his own will, can shutdown web sites within 4 hours.

Not if the people he calls have to do something new. DNS blocks are easy. Weathering an active attack might be harder. The question is how far Twitter wants to escalate.

If people keep pushing it with VPNs and censorship avoidance they'll just push Turkey to switch to a whitelisted Turkey-approved Internet and block everything else by default. It's much easier to maintain a whitelist of approved sites when you're censoring people than try to play whack-a-mole and block things that you don't like.

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