What Is Bandwidth Throttling That Slows The Whole Internet?

Turkey experienced one of the longest 24 hours of recent times. While the investigation into the incident in which we lost 6 of our citizens continues, immediately after the incident Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK), via social media platforms band narrowing announced that he was doing it.

The reason for band shrinking is that it can spread after the explosion. false information said to be restricted. So how does this app suddenly make all social media inaccessible? Now with you what the bandwidth is and how it is throttled We’ll take a closer look.

What is bandwidth?

Internet bandwidth is the amount of time an Internet-connected device receives and sends instantaneously. is a measure of the amount of data. In fact, we can think of this term as the hose we attach to the end of a valve. The larger the diameter of the hose, the greater the amount of water that can pass through it. Here, the hose diameter is the bandwidth of the internet world. Just as the amount of water flowing will decrease when we narrow the hose, so also if the bandwidth is narrowed. data transmission is reduced. As such, there is a slowdown in the web pages that are desired to be opened. If the bandwidth is reduced to zero, that is, if there is no gap in the hose that water can pass through, that device will not have access to the internet. With zero bandwidth unplugging the modemis essentially the same thing in terms of accessing the internet.

Bandwidth in some cases may not cover all internet access. This is what we experienced yesterday. Internet sites serving in different categories such as social networks, news or game sites are delivered to users. channels separated. We can think of the term duct as multiple small hoses connected to a large hose. Even though the amount of water passing through the main hose is the same, when the small ‘social media’ hose connected to that hose is narrowed, it naturally becomes difficult to access social media platforms. Therefore, access to social media platforms is not prohibited, but the data flows ‘drop by drop’, not loudly as always. While there was no problem of accessing news sites or game platforms yesterday, the fact that channels such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram were almost inaccessible was precisely due to this. The data transmission capacity of social networks was reduced.

So who is doing this? Who throttles the valves?

About internet and internet in Turkey all controlis maintained by the Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK). However, the institution does not arbitrarily turn the internet on and off, as you can imagine. Blocking or imposing bandwidth restrictions on a particular website or a set of websites carried out with instructions. Here is the law that provides how the process will work. You can access the full text of our content here.is the disinformation law that came into effect in October 2022. Article 34 of the law describes how to apply tape narrowing one by one:

Article 34 of the Law on Amendments to the Press Law and Some Laws contains the following statements:

“(5) In the Turkish Penal Code;

a) Child sexual abuse (article 103),

b) Publicly disseminating misleading information (article 217/A),

c) Disrupting the unity and territorial integrity of the state (article 302),

ç) Offenses Against the Constitutional Order and Its Functioning (articles 309, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315,316),

d) Offenses Against State Secrets and Espionage (article 328. 329, 330, 331, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337),

The information necessary to reach the perpetrators who create or spread internet content that is the subject of their crimes is under investigation. Republic prosecutoris given to the judicial authorities by the representative of the relevant social network provider in Turkey upon the request of the court where the proceedings are carried out during the prosecution phase. If this information is not given to the requesting Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor or to the court, the relevant public prosecutor will inform you that the social network provider from abroad. Ninety percent reduction of internet traffic bandwidth An application can be made to the Ankara Criminal Judgeship of Peace. If a decision is made to reduce the bandwidth of internet traffic, this decision is sent to the Authority to be notified to the access providers. The requirement of the decision is fulfilled by the access providers immediately and at the latest within four hours from the notification. If the social network provider fulfills its obligations under this paragraph, the sanctions are lifted and the Institution is notified.”

Even without this law, band narrowing could have been implemented.

The Law Amending the Press Law and Some Laws it is newYou may have wondered how an application was made in the past. Let’s explain right away: It was published in the Official Gazette on August 17, 2016. number 671 In Article 25 of the Decree-Law, it was decided to add the following paragraphs to Article 60 of the Electronic Communications Law No. 5809:

“(9) In cases where delay is inconvenient, depending on one or more of the reasons listed in Article 22 of the Constitution. Premiershipdetermines the measures to be taken and notifies the Institution for implementation. The President of the Authority immediately notifies the operators, access providers, data centers and related content and hosting providers of his decision regarding the measures deemed necessary by the Prime Ministry. The requirement of this decision is fulfilled immediately and within two hours at the latest from the moment of notification of the decision.. This decision is submitted to the approval of the criminal judge of peace within twenty-four hours. The judge will announce his decision within forty-eight hours, otherwise the decision will be lifted on its own.”

Here is this section added to Law No. 5809, Gives the President a new power. With this authority, the BTK was able to take action without waiting for a court decision. That’s it for yesterday’s contraction quickly This is exactly why it was implemented. BTK restricted the data flow after the incoming instruction, thus reducing the bandwidth. We, as individual users; We had problems accessing social media platforms…