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Proof? My understanding is that the Twitter block in 2016 had less to do with Twitter as a company and more to do with Tayipp not being able to control the flow of information.

Remember Wikipedia was blocked because Tayipp's page was painted honestly, which he found to be very unflattering, and because Wikimedia refused to remove references to the recorded/leaked conversations about money laundering with his (Berkeley-educated) nitwit song Bilal (There is a saying here when somebody does not understand what you are saying: "Explain it as if you are explaining it to Bilal".

This is also why soundcloud was blocked for 3 years, because people used it to post the recordings of him telling Bilal to remove all of the cash from the family houses in case they were searched.