It is possible that it is related to how Turkey has been flagging Linux software as malware.
Here is the link to the original website (an NGO that monitors blocked websites in Turkey): https://ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/distrowatch-erisime-engelledi/
And here is the Google translation of the text on that page:
The IP address of the DistroWatch platform, which provides news, reviews, rankings and general information about Linux distributions, was blocked by the National Cyber Incident Response Center (USOM) on the grounds of “IP hosting/spreading malware”.
Arent most linux distros in DistroWatch open source thus mitigating the malware risk by a ton?
yazılım can translate to programming or writings.
source : am turkish. this is bullshit. wikipedia was also banned for fucking ages
They’ll probably roll it back soon. The bureucrats do crazy stuff from time to time… Turkish Gov is very pro-Linux.
Can someone translate that text?
Here’s the Google Lens translation:
Please dont lost pictures of text, asshole
A totally reasonable response to someone kindly posting a translation
Glad to see lemmy users are just as snide as reddit users jeez
Lol wuttttt
I am turkish and i can say due go how fucking Technologically illiterate our goverment is, Distro watch is probably got banned automatically because Free Software -> Piracy. Most tech related at goverment jobs have people over 50+ That does not know how nodern technology works. I am suprised that they know what free means
Why DistroWatch ? Are Linux news sites and Linux download sites also blocked ?
Spreading malware? It doesn’t host any distros… what are they talking about?