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"..People in Turkey had banned the ban.
By the end of the evening, I repeated the same line in interviews and also on Twitter: the only people ?banned? from Twitter are pro-government supporters not wanting to openly circumvent. But then even some of them started popping up, arguing the ban must be a mistake or a devious plot by the opponents in the judiciary where they had been battling a faction. It was 3am in Turkey and it seemed that many people on my Twitter list who?d normally would be asleep by then were awake, rejoicing in the freedom they clutched. They were not going to let go. Jokes were proliferating about the weakness of the ban, the fact that pro-government supporters had mostly decided to stay away, and the fact that and the prolific Tweeter and mayor of Ankara from the ruling party had not been able to resist the temptation. He had circumvented...."
"..People in Turkey had banned the ban.
By the end of the evening, I repeated the same line in interviews and also on Twitter: the only people ?banned? from Twitter are pro-government supporters not wanting to openly circumvent. But then even some of them started popping up, arguing the ban must be a mistake or a devious plot by the opponents in the judiciary where they had been battling a faction. It was 3am in Turkey and it seemed that many people on my Twitter list who?d normally would be asleep by then were awake, rejoicing in the freedom they clutched. They were not going to let go. Jokes were proliferating about the weakness of the ban, the fact that pro-government supporters had mostly decided to stay away, and the fact that and the prolific Tweeter and mayor of Ankara from the ruling party had not been able to resist the temptation. He had circumvented...."
