In china, even google doesn't work. instagram, tiktok, whatsapp, basically everything isn't allowed, but there are other websites like a china type google that people in china use.
@@yessir7147 that's objectively not true brother ......they would like the public to preseve there original country as friendly and promoting even there original culture by the simple act of sharing the net connection ..... that's specially feasible for the Russians because they have history in Turkmenistan
@@OutsiderLabs Please, if the US wanted to spy on the locals they could find 1000+ more creative ways. And as apposed to the country that is restricting freedoms and is most defiantly spying on them? But noooo lets criticize the US...
It was for demonstration... Wouldn't have been so expressive if it said that the site didn't exist or was blocked by the government or whatever... He later showed that google and wikipedia worked, so it's okay i think? It's like saying that the frozen pizza has false advertising because there was a fresh leaf on basil on the picture.
@@andrewlloydpeterson no, again, if websites are blacklisted by default and need to be whitelisted then the bridges won’t work either. I can’t find much information on Turkmenistan’s internet so I don’t know how it works
@@YorktownClassYeah, how dare they provide free internet to a population that's basically cut off from the outside world to make them easier to control by their totalitarian dictator.
@major_kukri2430 yea, I forgot the exact name of it, but because multiplayer Minecraft is still allowed in some oppressive countries, its a really good way for people to access outside info
My parents are from there. They moved to America in 1995, after the wall fell and they after they finally saved up enough to travel out of the country.
That's still a thing, but more difficult to access in some countries. Like it's tailored more specifically to a few countries like Vietnam or Saudi Arabia
Except that it doesn't? Just because there are a few places where you can occasionally have access to the outside world doesn't mean that they are not isolated not to mention other laws against women and other discriminatory laws. That's like saying North Korea is capitalist, because you can buy smuggled goods.
It's more about all the people basically being guilty of something, because laws are stupid, and the government being able to chain anyone of they would have any reason to do so. Like, they even imprisoned some people for saved pictures in PRIVATE social media albums in Russia because of some meme that was either making fun of religion or making fun of the government. As a tactic of terrifying other people into submission. Special services are basically a huge racket mob. They let businessmen to "bend" laws in their favor until they those businessmen are not compliant enough, or if they are competing with some other business which affiliated with said special services.
For anyone wondering why websites aren’t banned in the US embassy, embassies are considered land inside of their original country. This means everyone inside of the building is both standing in that particular country *and* they are following the laws of that country. It’s a strange system but it does let people connect to the internet, I guess, lol.
Ehhhhhh, no, not really. They aren’t considered part of the embassy’s country. Embassies are considered to be fully the territory of the host country; diplomatic convention just allows the country occupying that plot of land to enforce its laws.
One cool thing is there is a Minecraft library that is basically the internet where you can join and learn about the news and whatnot it’s pretty interesting
Yeah except it's full of basically nothing. Go download the map, it's a cool build with a few dozen Minecraft books that are just a few handpicked records of human rights abuses.
@benjaminkanoza2701 You're very privileged to live in a country with freedom of press. It's not just "no internet", that's the concern, it's lack of news and the forced echo chambers which these totalitarian countries impose.
How about Uzbekistan (and Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan?) Do they have a similar way of life, or very different? I am very curious, thanks in advance if you could answer 😊
@@yychen5809 All those other countries are not land locked like Turkmenistan. They are fine. My brother lives in Kyrgyzstan and everything is normal and nice there. Internet and everything else works great. It's just Turkmenistan. It's like how north korea has so many things banned but south korea is free.
You are censored on every site you go to anymore , what part of your internet is unrestricted ? You're just seeing what they want you to see , they have been gaslighting you real good .
I remember having an online classmate from Turkmenistan during online classes in 2021, she had barely any internet and the teacher we all hated one day says to my classmate " please install a better wifi or go to a place with better wifi in your house so i dont have to keep adding you back in" like dude wtf??
First other Embassys dont exist likley , Also "us digust me" cool, Nice opinion? some nations are worst, some better who cares. Second US is the most freedom embassy u could get and easily be paid for/good internet (GOD BLESS THE AMERICAN PRINTERS) and has the power to keep that embassy in safety without threat of the state@@kenz2756
The only thing I've seen America advertise is it's opposition to any sort of moral values beyond "accept everything" such as waving the rainbow flag more than even their own national one. This is not freedom, it's just the promotion of evil.
@@scrubvision5652if u can't control internet addiction, does that mean it is the role of the government to baby you and tell you want is okay for you to view and not view.
We do this in every country. Go check out the American center in your home nation. Free library, internet, classes, education, english lessons. Whatever you need.
@@rivakenpachi656 who doesn't know about Eritrea? Everyone knows its the one by Djibouti and ethiopia that the fake country in the movie dictator was in
Most of the countries in Middle East are like this. Iran is another example and it’s just frustrating. People of Iran (where I live) and other countries like this, don’t even believe in this weird ideology of alienating the western or even eastern medias but this countries leaders try everything they can to just make their people miserable.
Not surprising tbh The Arab Spring only happened due to the internet so it makes sense similar countries are trying to prevent that from happening again
@@yychen5809 we dont have access to youtube but most of the time we have access to google and sometimes they completely block international internet and we become like north korea for a few weeks thankfully it's too expensive to do that all the time
Thanks for sharing an insightful inside vid of what it’s like in Turkmenistan! Most documentaries just focus on the dictatorship and how “not western” the country is. I’ve landed in Asgabat in 2010 pre-WiFi era in Central and South Asia without smartphones. So it would be interesting to go this time with a smartphone.
Even majority of Africa has it. Hell i think even north korea does while its very limiting internet they have it. Mostly officials but students there get access to the internet and have less regulation then here
We're/we are. I don't want to disrespect you in any way by doing this. Just think it is good to point on a mistake so people can become better and not repeat it.
Visit the American center in your home country. They have a free library, english lessons, job interview assistance, etc etc. They also have them outside Ankara, not just in the capital and instanbul
Actually there were no countries completely devoid of internet access. However, some nations have limited or restricted internet access due to various reasons like government censorship, infrastructure issues, or political conflicts
@@daviddeweaver6906fuck, i guess when the dictatorship finally fucking collapses because people are basically done with their shit right now they might see the true side of the US
@@daviddeweaver6906not really, not much turkmen The embassy will be full of rich dudes with too much money and time to come there. Average person has life to live not waste time at embassy
Try the American center in your country if you live near a major city. There is free internet, but also classes, books, job advice, school application info, etc
@@UnQuacker i used to know some people from over there, my friends. They told me stories how difficult its for them to live under such tyranny. They left it and many other people continue to escape this madhouse
Nord vpn would actually have hella advertisement if they made an agreement with their public to consistantly release vpns to get around the government blocks. More advertisement than all the youtube ads combined.
I'm reminded of triforce% It's a TAS (tool assisted speedrun. Basically making a robot play the game) of the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time where part of the TAS involves sending CPU instructions via the controller At first the exploit used only allowed for very slow payload transmission. A few bytes or even just a few bits per second. But gradually, the payload was executed and the max speed went up. And up. And up I think it ended around a kilobyte per second. It's been a while since I saw the explanation The point is that as long as it is physically possible to send data in and out of the country, you can bet there are armies of developers making sure people inside that country have ways to access the outside world Tor, VPNs, proxies, I2P, everything As long as that tiny little oversight exists, people can and will find a way through and you cannot make them unlearn what they saw and the tools they have
Having no choice is a dictatorship. If everyone chose to not use the internet or use it little, then it's paradise, but when you're forced into that choice, nah.
More like the west which claims to be libertarian yet forces every culture across the world to be westernised and any differences are ostracized for the sake of western convenience, humanity is ruined because of the west and it's neocolonial ways which you westerner gets to talk about it on the internet here, i guess it's only authoritarian for you westerners if the country has control over its people by force and not like soft power manipulation done by the west which u claim is free😂
@Amvc8 my brother people should be free to do as they please if people want to criticise something its their human right. Also imagine being sent to a concentration camp or tortured to death because you or someone you know doesn't express the same opinions as the government you talk about the west doing this but authoritarian countries like iran north korea and china all do this. You are right about the west ruining other cultures and countries, although people have more freedom here to express their cultures and beliefs without being shut down
@@doomi_nukem well you say as if you know these countries and how they operate or even lived there, it's easy to talk other countries as authoritarian while never living there, you are just as deluded as the rest really thinking everything the west says is right while never actually checking it for yourself, i mean you really think a population of 1 billion will just sit down and accept being slaves? The systems those countries have work for them then why does the west pester these countries if they aren't having any problems, seems like the west is just least tolerant of other cultures and their beliefs, i mean really why can't the west live and let live really? You talk about freedom of speech and all that stuff yet other countries can't have different laws and lifestyles than what is convenient for the west, if anything it speaks volumes about the lack of understanding the west has about the rest of the world
@@doomi_nukem i mean really, why should i believe any bullshit the west talks about other countries especially when they have been known for propogandizing their own history and deleting some aspects of it entirely for western convenience, you talk about concentration camps yet you hypocrites don't talk about the reeducation camps your leaders set up for the very people who originated on the lands your people stole, funny you people talk about genocide and other things yet the west has single-handedly been behind various wars for decades, no different from the colonial powers in the past
@@doomi_nukem every country has committed genocide or horrible things all in the name of their own security or superiority, what matters is which country is the dominant and controlling everywhere across the globe still harming every country and desecrating their culture and it does look like the western powers are doing a better job, the fact we are speaking English and not our fellow respective languages just proves it
@@VERDIENSTORDEN it has never been about being able to go with or without technology. It is about freedom of the people themselves and choices they make. They control the population and people in it for themselves. Not to mention, if you think the only reason people want to connect to the internet is entertainment, then you truly are brain-dead. It is especially ironic as you are currently using internet and commenting on this short.
I dunno, america isn't that free. (but i know american like to believe it is) I find it somewhat sad but at the same time , turkmenistan is one of the worst country of the world, so people here do what they can i guess.
@@PossiblyNow Free healthcare? Free tuition? Or maybe maternal leave like every other countries? (yes, even turkmenistan has it ) You are free on a lot of thing, it's not as bad as in turkmenistan of course, but it isn't the best at all on the matter.
@@Eldiran1Medicare is basically free and has great benefits. Universities and colleges are now bending over backwards to give money to students. We do need to work on our maternal and paternal leave policies, but that is because the government leaves it up to business to decide that.
@@Eldiran1That doesn't make a country free. Let's say: -Country number 1: Has free healthcare and other forms of welfare, but there are no free or fair elections and criticising the government can easily get you arrested. Or -Country number 2: Doesn't have much welfare but has free and fair elections, and you are constitutionally and in practice guaranteed your freedom of speech, among other guaranteed freedoms (right to bear arms, freedom of association etc.) Which country do you think qualifies as free and not free?
Theres moderate censorship in Kazakhstan where I study. Back when I lived in the dorm I bought a VPN licensing key and sold it to dormmates. It was fun solving the problem of having to find new vpns for classmates every day.
"cleanest roads" wtf , the one we saw here on the video doesn't look particulary special. Maybe if you are from belgium i guess ^^ And for the architecture, it doesn't look that bad but the most beautiful, it's vastly exagerate but i guess when it come to art, it's subjective. It's one of the worste country of the world, less freedom than north korea, poorest than nearly everywhere. This is what you got with shitty zelot religious in power.
@@greypug7769wikipedia and media sosial aren't the same. Wikipedia often spread useful and valid information but media sosial has a higher chance of false and misleading information. So learning knowledge in the internet doesn't really apply to media sosial.
I'm Turkmen so lemme explain Average citizen gets 3mb per second Students get 6mb per second Government 10mb per second So there actually is internet,you have to go to an internet cafe and get a subscription,then you will use a router.hope that helps.
‼️I have a longer video on my whole experience here available on my page 🎉
In china, even google doesn't work. instagram, tiktok, whatsapp, basically everything isn't allowed, but there are other websites like a china type google that people in china use.
Woohoo 🎉
Not surprised an islamic country would do this
What's the title of the video
9⁹0😊
"this video is sponsored by NordVPN"
😂
Clone vpn....
Clone vpn
One of the first VPNs to be banned 😂
CyberGhost
“Yo bro, let’s head to the US Embassy and play some Minecraft”
Aight
Better hit up the freedom library.
Which one mentioned about minecraft ? I dont found it
Let’s go to the library that legit has everything we need to know :))
The founding fathers when you enter the embassy be like:🗿🗿🗿🗿
"particularly every news website is banned"
mfs getting their news from steam group pages 🗿
Thug shaker central has found purpose
We aint trusting them!!! I trust in roblox news guy!!!
@whitegd4100 China is now angry
lmfao
What
“Hey, you see that new video on insta? It was hilarious”
“Hold up, let me just drive to the U.S Embassy real quick”
1.2k likes and no replies? lemme fix that
Real
@@jacobw3314most likely they can go to any embassy
@@user-rl8hf8kt1rother embassies wouldn’t ever dream of offering internet to the public.
america just built different
@@yessir7147
that's objectively not true brother ......they would like the public to preseve there original country as friendly and promoting even there original culture by the simple act of sharing the net connection ..... that's specially feasible for the Russians because they have history in Turkmenistan
Gotta say the idea of a embassy giving locals the ability to use the internet is pretty great
Great way to spy on them
@@OutsiderLabs Please, if the US wanted to spy on the locals they could find 1000+ more creative ways. And as apposed to the country that is restricting freedoms and is most defiantly spying on them? But noooo lets criticize the US...
@@OutsiderLabsyou get it.
@@OutsiderLabs They gonna spy either way, might as well do something nice while at it
Embassy mending others affairs and rules is not embassy is but a spy agency trying to make state with in state
“A country with no internet” *has airplane mode on*
Yeah I was coming to see who would call him out for that shit lmao
As someone who travels thru spotty cell reception, I can tell you that the phone connecting and disconnecting absolutely kills battery life
@@ShadowLimited310100% I turn airplane mode on when I’m on the train with no signal, it’s just common sense
It saves battery
It was for demonstration...
Wouldn't have been so expressive if it said that the site didn't exist or was blocked by the government or whatever... He later showed that google and wikipedia worked, so it's okay i think? It's like saying that the frozen pizza has false advertising because there was a fresh leaf on basil on the picture.
America:”hey kid, want some internet?”
They don't have oil, that's why they don't need the democracy
All the cool kids are using AOL 😎
,😂😂
That's how Libya was destroyed 😂
Don't worry Russia will protect them from the "freedom" land
"checking their social media accounts and messaging....young single mums in your area now"
1.4k like and no comments?
Stop exposing us man 😅
What the heck Ella that was supposed to be personal
never met a single person who says " mum"
I don't get it
I'm from Turkey, and my best friend grew up in Turkmenistan. he also told me that he'd go on TH-cam via the internet on the US embassy
this is why tor is so important and not just a "spooky oh no deep web" thing
Yeah but if websites get banned by default then tor nodes will be banned as well
@@nix4110there are bridges
@@andrewlloydpetersonBridges make websites take several minutes to load but it’s better than nothing I suppose
@@nix4110As someone who grew up with internet censorship I doubt they even know tor exists.
@@andrewlloydpeterson no, again, if websites are blacklisted by default and need to be whitelisted then the bridges won’t work either. I can’t find much information on Turkmenistan’s internet so I don’t know how it works
And there's that one guy who went to the embassy to see the hub
The embussy
Or he can finally download his "homework"
@@thorsitonaaa😭😭
@@thorsitoWhy?
Proud to be your 999th like
US Embassy internet traffic be like 📈📈📈
Why does the US embassy care about providing internet though? Somethings fishy.
@@YorktownClassYeah, how dare they provide free internet to a population that's basically cut off from the outside world to make them easier to control by their totalitarian dictator.
@@YorktownClass😂bro chill..let people chill on internet 🛜😊
@@YorktownClassit isn’t fishy, the U.S. wants to provide freedom where it can. Whats fishy is authoritarian countries blocking internet.
@@YorktownClass it will be for tourists that are US Citizens, most likely.
don't forget about the Minecraft freedom library
Shhhh. Don't want to get that banned too.
What?
@@major_kukri2430there's a Minecraft map that has books that are full of irl info.
@@major_kukri2430in a minecraft world there is books filled to the brim with information about stuff. I dont know the whole story buts it’s cool
@major_kukri2430 yea, I forgot the exact name of it, but because multiplayer Minecraft is still allowed in some oppressive countries, its a really good way for people to access outside info
Place is ridiculously decorated. You'd almost assume it was ruled by a dictator. So much gold everywhere.
And tou're right. Turkmenistan is basically a North Korea: central Asia edition
My parents are from there. They moved to America in 1995, after the wall fell and they after they finally saved up enough to travel out of the country.
Used to be a library on a Minecraft server that you could get your news from
That's still a thing, but more difficult to access in some countries. Like it's tailored more specifically to a few countries like Vietnam or Saudi Arabia
@@diamondman307_hey I’m Vietnamese in the US, what’s up with Vietnam? I’m not really up to date with politics and all that.
@@callsignvalkyrie I'm not totally sure tbh, I think there's info on the Uncensored Library website
it's called "The Uncensored Library"
Great background music dude
It sounds familiar what is it called?
Resonance slow and reverbed from Blade Runner movie
@@dirankesuma might sound familiar because I think VSauce have used it before.
@@dirankesumaHOME - Resonance (Slowed)
Npc ahh music heard across a shitton of shorts
"The toughness of our laws is balanced by the optionality of following it" a Russian quote, that applies here as well
Except that it doesn't? Just because there are a few places where you can occasionally have access to the outside world doesn't mean that they are not isolated not to mention other laws against women and other discriminatory laws. That's like saying North Korea is capitalist, because you can buy smuggled goods.
@@zsomborszigeti6797what law against woman?
@@Hymn_it’s the law against women…women are against the law 😂😂😂no womening allowed!
It's more about all the people basically being guilty of something, because laws are stupid, and the government being able to chain anyone of they would have any reason to do so. Like, they even imprisoned some people for saved pictures in PRIVATE social media albums in Russia because of some meme that was either making fun of religion or making fun of the government. As a tactic of terrifying other people into submission.
Special services are basically a huge racket mob. They let businessmen to "bend" laws in their favor until they those businessmen are not compliant enough, or if they are competing with some other business which affiliated with said special services.
@@zsomborszigeti6797What laws against women?
This short would've been perfect for a vpn sponsor lmao
For anyone wondering why websites aren’t banned in the US embassy, embassies are considered land inside of their original country. This means everyone inside of the building is both standing in that particular country *and* they are following the laws of that country. It’s a strange system but it does let people connect to the internet, I guess, lol.
Ehhhhhh, no, not really. They aren’t considered part of the embassy’s country. Embassies are considered to be fully the territory of the host country; diplomatic convention just allows the country occupying that plot of land to enforce its laws.
Not at all correct. You're repeating a Hollywood myth.
@@OutsiderLabs Please do explain the truth then. I’m genuinely curious.
They aren’t but they enjoy extraterritorial rights
I wish or I will be running casinos rn lol
One cool thing is there is a Minecraft library that is basically the internet where you can join and learn about the news and whatnot it’s pretty interesting
Yep
Yeah except it's full of basically nothing. Go download the map, it's a cool build with a few dozen Minecraft books that are just a few handpicked records of human rights abuses.
Sounds like a propaganda hotspot
@@nadsenoj8719 I never said that. It's both controlled propaganda.
Looks so beautiful there. But no internet, DAMN
@benjaminkanoza2701 Because, in our modern society, it's important to stay connected with the world.
@benjaminkanoza2701acting holier-than-thou about the internet while you’re ON THE INTERNET is never a good look.
@@apocsquidexactly what I was thinking when I read that
@benjaminkanoza2701 You're very privileged to live in a country with freedom of press. It's not just "no internet", that's the concern, it's lack of news and the forced echo chambers which these totalitarian countries impose.
@yapflipthegrunt4687 many people do it every day with no problem
As a kazakh…. Turkmenistan is like a mixture of turkey and north korea itself LITERALLY
No one talks about Turkmenistan because they dont attention seek unlike north korea.
How about Uzbekistan (and Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan?) Do they have a similar way of life, or very different? I am very curious, thanks in advance if you could answer 😊
They have some great fuckin bread though
@@yychen5809 All those other countries are not land locked like Turkmenistan. They are fine. My brother lives in Kyrgyzstan and everything is normal and nice there. Internet and everything else works great. It's just Turkmenistan. It's like how north korea has so many things banned but south korea is free.
As someone who lives in a country with almost unrestricted Internet, I see this as an absolute win
You are censored on every site you go to anymore , what part of your internet is unrestricted ? You're just seeing what they want you to see , they have been gaslighting you real good .
@@timc333oh yeah ? So what part of the internet we are not aware of?
I remember having an online classmate from Turkmenistan during online classes in 2021, she had barely any internet and the teacher we all hated one day says to my classmate " please install a better wifi or go to a place with better wifi in your house so i dont have to keep adding you back in" like dude wtf??
:(
So they're basically using the US embassy as a network Cafe
Good on them, maybe I can find some Turkmen friends 😊
Why the US? It can be any embassy. US kinda disgust me use any country but them.
First other Embassys dont exist likley , Also "us digust me" cool, Nice opinion? some nations are worst, some better who cares. Second US is the most freedom embassy u could get and easily be paid for/good internet (GOD BLESS THE AMERICAN PRINTERS) and has the power to keep that embassy in safety without threat of the state@@kenz2756
@@kenz2756ok? the world doesn’t revolve around you
@@midleno8364 The world revolves around the US my guy, you've got it backwards.
Like someone once told me “there’s either no internet or there is internet” no in between
So no one can have an online business, no dropshipping, no content creators?
This was good info, thanks for sharing.
The embassy of America perfectly representing America by advertising freedom.
The only thing I've seen America advertise is it's opposition to any sort of moral values beyond "accept everything" such as waving the rainbow flag more than even their own national one. This is not freedom, it's just the promotion of evil.
The only thing USA advertises regularly is imperialism
the us is not free
That's the best part.
You don't get what was advertised.
But then how it is representing perfectly if you don't get... Ohh...
It's heartbreaking, but also a point of pride, to know that in the middle of a dictatorship, the American Embassy is just like "nah, fuck that" 😅
embassy means foreign soil so the government has no power there. that's why the embassy can do that.
internet and materialism is not always a good thing may be their population is doing better mental health wise
@@scrubvision5652 blud loves dictators and censorship 🤦
@@scrubvision5652if u can't control internet addiction, does that mean it is the role of the government to baby you and tell you want is okay for you to view and not view.
@@scrubvision5652you do not know anything about life in turkmenistan 💀💀💀
They don’t want anyone getting out.
From what I understood, you can book a ticket through an agency like the old days.
So, I don't get your point.
afaik they don't want ppl to come. they have limited numbers of foreign tourists allowed to be in their capital at one time.
Dont see them complaining
Or they don't want propaganda getting in...
just like US
Sky net: “You look lonely, I can fix that”
“DUDE THIS PLACE IS ASS”
drives off road, car explodes
United States randomly for the win. Didn't expect them to just let people in honestly.
We do this in every country. Go check out the American center in your home nation.
Free library, internet, classes, education, english lessons.
Whatever you need.
Wdym? They let themselves in
@@infienite9215 we invite them in*
The fucking US embassy's an internet Cafe
Civilization
It could be any embassy. They are technically foreign soil, so it's has some autonomy in law. I believe this guy is American though.
@kenz2756 but many US embassies around the have this policy. They allow young people to access their libraries and internet.
@@tomsriver2838 Every embassies are considered foreign land with foreign regulations.
@@kenz2756 that's beside the point.
Turkmenistan is interesting as it’s basically a central Asian North Korea/Eritrea, but it has oil so it doesn’t have extreme anti-American sentiments.
Quite outstanding that you know about my country eritrea
@@rivakenpachi656 who doesn't know about Eritrea? Everyone knows its the one by Djibouti and ethiopia that the fake country in the movie dictator was in
@@rivakenpachi656Are you fine? 😔
Ever heard of Iran and Venezuela? No?
@@jolly-rancher Venezuela is not that strong, they are just poor
Most of the countries in Middle East are like this. Iran is another example and it’s just frustrating. People of Iran (where I live) and other countries like this, don’t even believe in this weird ideology of alienating the western or even eastern medias but this countries leaders try everything they can to just make their people miserable.
Well, maybe your leaders know best. Western media is full of hidden agendas that turn society inside out.
Not surprising tbh
The Arab Spring only happened due to the internet so it makes sense similar countries are trying to prevent that from happening again
for anyone wondering what the name of this golden piece of music is in the background it’s called resonance - Home
The one guy in the bathroom: 🗿
I’m curious who or what authority decides what and why certain sites get banned and vice versa
Seems literally like a totalitarian and controlling.
It is what it seems like.
It is.
It seems as it is
Seems very similar to western countries
@@Gords38897 not at all like western country’s. Do you live in a western country?
as a Iranian we have the same issues
Is Google accessible there?
@@yychen5809 we dont have access to youtube but most of the time we have access to google and sometimes they completely block international internet and we become like north korea for a few weeks thankfully it's too expensive to do that all the time
Honestly would be completely fine with this as long as I could still find movies and shows to watch.
Thanks for sharing an insightful inside vid of what it’s like in Turkmenistan! Most documentaries just focus on the dictatorship and how “not western” the country is. I’ve landed in Asgabat in 2010 pre-WiFi era in Central and South Asia without smartphones. So it would be interesting to go this time with a smartphone.
Even Cuba has internet 🤣🤣🤣
Even majority of Africa has it. Hell i think even north korea does while its very limiting internet they have it. Mostly officials but students there get access to the internet and have less regulation then here
This is false. Turkmenistan has internet.
Why "even" Cuba? Afaik Cuba is doing pretty good despite the embargoes, developing cancer vaccines and whatnot?
@nuzayerov his video clarifies that its an effective internet ban.
@@mauri-mattiaslaanesaar5305dude you don't know the state of Cuba right now do you?
Sounds like heaven, no social media
Move there then lol
"no internet". Puts on air plane mode...
did you even listen to the video?
You can have wifi whilst being on flight mode
Dude never have Wi-Fi while in flight mode before lmao. 💀💀💀
It’s like the early days of the internet. When you couldn’t have access to it all the time.
*better times in my opinion
i find this similar to schools where kids just keep popping up with proxies and game websites no matter what the staff blocks
This is exactly what were dealing with in iran.
Does Iran also have a weird dictator thats madly in love with horses?
@@ZetsubenSamano but he said a man without beard is gay.
@@Yana.-_-. amazing 😂
Iran is a beutiful country with 🐍 leaders
We're/we are. I don't want to disrespect you in any way by doing this. Just think it is good to point on a mistake so people can become better and not repeat it.
Everything is banned but you can use google, the largest search engine on planet earth🤦♂️😂
God, imagine making friends with someone there and not being able to reliably hang out with them online :(
You wouldnt really give shit about them but your govt trying to exploit the country will
well at least they can go to the us embassy.
imagine my whole family is there, half of them under house arrest while i am in the US
People in the UK in high school: we find proxies almost every day 😂
Interesting and informative,
Thankyou
“Lets go to US Embassy and play CS:GO”💀
CS2
When you care enough to have a law, but dont care enough to enforce it.
as a Turkish (Not Turkmenistan) i really didnt know that
I’m Türkmen and I speak Türkçe
@@ogOkayW woah aint no way you're turkmenian thought y'all dont have access to social media and internet
@@Mustafassos_Vaslos I’m in USA
Visit the American center in your home country. They have a free library, english lessons, job interview assistance, etc etc.
They also have them outside Ankara, not just in the capital and instanbul
Actually there were no countries completely devoid of internet access. However, some nations have limited or restricted internet access due to various reasons like government censorship, infrastructure issues, or political conflicts
It’s like the 90s again, you have to go to the library to use the internet and message your friends.
Thought homie was in North Korea for a second there.☠️
America wins at marketing once again
How
@@scrolersonline8490 the Turkmens know us as the good guys now. Whether we are the good guys is besides the point.
True dat
@@daviddeweaver6906fuck, i guess when the dictatorship finally fucking collapses because people are basically done with their shit right now they might see the true side of the US
@@daviddeweaver6906not really, not much turkmen
The embassy will be full of rich dudes with too much money and time to come there. Average person has life to live not waste time at embassy
*Shows us his phone on airplane mode*
So, hell does exist.
Imagine an entire country huddled around the US embassy outside holding up their phones.
I don't need to imagine. When Pokemon Go was a thing literally you get pumped into by those people every single day.
Starlink would like a word lol
there’s a difference between cell service and internet doofus
@@edgytoucan3444Starlink _is_ an Internet service provider though?
That place looks beautiful and developed ngl
That's because tourists don't usually see the bad parts of the country
Bro phone was on airplane mode 💀💀💀
Thank heavens such a place still exists
Meanwhile me using a vpn to watch this short on youtube because everything is blocked in my country too 🌝
Me when I used to live in China ha. ✌️
Try the American center in your country if you live near a major city.
There is free internet, but also classes, books, job advice, school application info, etc
People in Turkmenistan indeed need some democracy 😏
Jokes aside they actually need it
@@UnQuacker i used to know some people from over there, my friends. They told me stories how difficult its for them to live under such tyranny. They left it and many other people continue to escape this madhouse
Fr 😿
So interesting! Thanks for posting.
Turkmenistan is basically north Korea but really fucking rich
What’s their economy based on?
@@fireiron369gas
Drugs
Nord vpn would actually have hella advertisement if they made an agreement with their public to consistantly release vpns to get around the government blocks. More advertisement than all the youtube ads combined.
I'm reminded of triforce%
It's a TAS (tool assisted speedrun. Basically making a robot play the game) of the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time where part of the TAS involves sending CPU instructions via the controller
At first the exploit used only allowed for very slow payload transmission. A few bytes or even just a few bits per second.
But gradually, the payload was executed and the max speed went up. And up. And up
I think it ended around a kilobyte per second. It's been a while since I saw the explanation
The point is that as long as it is physically possible to send data in and out of the country, you can bet there are armies of developers making sure people inside that country have ways to access the outside world
Tor, VPNs, proxies, I2P, everything
As long as that tiny little oversight exists, people can and will find a way through and you cannot make them unlearn what they saw and the tools they have
Bro used home resonance like we would not notice..❤
If it wasn't an effing dictatorship - a country with no internet sounds like paradise.
Having no choice is a dictatorship. If everyone chose to not use the internet or use it little, then it's paradise, but when you're forced into that choice, nah.
Be interesting to talk to whoever in charge put in this policy. You just know they are ignorant af.
Without internet half of the life problems will reduce.
Which means the people there won't be influenced by Stupid Dances From Tiktok and other social media platforms
We need to know their leaders browsing history 💀
"hot single moms in my area"
@@LORDMM. No dowry needed
It amazes me that authoritarian nations still exist. Do better humanity.
More like the west which claims to be libertarian yet forces every culture across the world to be westernised and any differences are ostracized for the sake of western convenience, humanity is ruined because of the west and it's neocolonial ways which you westerner gets to talk about it on the internet here, i guess it's only authoritarian for you westerners if the country has control over its people by force and not like soft power manipulation done by the west which u claim is free😂
@Amvc8 my brother people should be free to do as they please if people want to criticise something its their human right. Also imagine being sent to a concentration camp or tortured to death because you or someone you know doesn't express the same opinions as the government you talk about the west doing this but authoritarian countries like iran north korea and china all do this. You are right about the west ruining other cultures and countries, although people have more freedom here to express their cultures and beliefs without being shut down
@@doomi_nukem well you say as if you know these countries and how they operate or even lived there, it's easy to talk other countries as authoritarian while never living there, you are just as deluded as the rest really thinking everything the west says is right while never actually checking it for yourself, i mean you really think a population of 1 billion will just sit down and accept being slaves? The systems those countries have work for them then why does the west pester these countries if they aren't having any problems, seems like the west is just least tolerant of other cultures and their beliefs, i mean really why can't the west live and let live really? You talk about freedom of speech and all that stuff yet other countries can't have different laws and lifestyles than what is convenient for the west, if anything it speaks volumes about the lack of understanding the west has about the rest of the world
@@doomi_nukem i mean really, why should i believe any bullshit the west talks about other countries especially when they have been known for propogandizing their own history and deleting some aspects of it entirely for western convenience, you talk about concentration camps yet you hypocrites don't talk about the reeducation camps your leaders set up for the very people who originated on the lands your people stole, funny you people talk about genocide and other things yet the west has single-handedly been behind various wars for decades, no different from the colonial powers in the past
@@doomi_nukem every country has committed genocide or horrible things all in the name of their own security or superiority, what matters is which country is the dominant and controlling everywhere across the globe still harming every country and desecrating their culture and it does look like the western powers are doing a better job, the fact we are speaking English and not our fellow respective languages just proves it
It's a big L for the government
Big WWWWWWWW can’t go a day with technology oh no
@@VERDIENSTORDEN it has never been about being able to go with or without technology. It is about freedom of the people themselves and choices they make. They control the population and people in it for themselves.
Not to mention, if you think the only reason people want to connect to the internet is entertainment, then you truly are brain-dead.
It is especially ironic as you are currently using internet and commenting on this short.
@@VERDIENSTORDEN look at yourself
@Jxeon_for what lil bro tiktok?
@@devceropeolearw5441 Tiktok is not the whole internet. You can buy things, meet new people and learn basically any skill on the internet.
It's like the Hotel California. You can check-in but you can never leave.
This is why Starlink is so important.
meow meow
That’s why this video is sponsored by Nord VPN 😂
if you downloaded it before it works@johnhinchliff5816
The American embassy being used to have freedom on the internet might be the most American thing I've heard all day
I dunno, america isn't that free. (but i know american like to believe it is)
I find it somewhat sad but at the same time , turkmenistan is one of the worst country of the world, so people here do what they can i guess.
@@Eldiran1 we are alot more free than what you think
@@PossiblyNow Free healthcare? Free tuition? Or maybe maternal leave like every other countries? (yes, even turkmenistan has it )
You are free on a lot of thing, it's not as bad as in turkmenistan of course, but it isn't the best at all on the matter.
@@Eldiran1Medicare is basically free and has great benefits. Universities and colleges are now bending over backwards to give money to students. We do need to work on our maternal and paternal leave policies, but that is because the government leaves it up to business to decide that.
@@Eldiran1That doesn't make a country free.
Let's say:
-Country number 1: Has free healthcare and other forms of welfare, but there are no free or fair elections and criticising the government can easily get you arrested.
Or
-Country number 2: Doesn't have much welfare but has free and fair elections, and you are constitutionally and in practice guaranteed your freedom of speech, among other guaranteed freedoms (right to bear arms, freedom of association etc.)
Which country do you think qualifies as free and not free?
Theres moderate censorship in Kazakhstan where I study. Back when I lived in the dorm I bought a VPN licensing key and sold it to dormmates. It was fun solving the problem of having to find new vpns for classmates every day.
Of course the kids will find them, we are literally the masters of finding games/unblocked websites.
A Country with no Internet.
It has the cleanest roads and most beautiful architecture.
One of the poorest country in the World, it was build not for it's people, but for images, most of these buildings are empty like in North Korea
Falling for Autocracies' old tricks I see
"cleanest roads" wtf , the one we saw here on the video doesn't look particulary special.
Maybe if you are from belgium i guess ^^
And for the architecture, it doesn't look that bad but the most beautiful, it's vastly exagerate but i guess when it come to art, it's subjective.
It's one of the worste country of the world, less freedom than north korea, poorest than nearly everywhere. This is what you got with shitty zelot religious in power.
You are not immune to propaganda
Capital has. Only capital. And by the way only 1% using this roads.
No social media available? Sounds like a very mentally healthy country
you know what it means when a country bans freedom, it's not a country, it's a prison
how is internet related to freedom. xd
@@zekriamine7842because it allows people to learn any information they desire? Aka freedom???
@@greypug7769 they have strict laws and morals. you dont see naked people and hoes in the street like your free country.
@@greypug7769wikipedia and media sosial aren't the same. Wikipedia often spread useful and valid information but media sosial has a higher chance of false and misleading information. So learning knowledge in the internet doesn't really apply to media sosial.
Americans explaining how school shootings protect freedom
This is what it was like when I was in Cuba! Crazy.
When the first thing you see about a country talks about its distinct lack of human rights, _You Dont Go There And Expect Good Things._
I'm Turkmen so lemme explain
Average citizen gets 3mb per second
Students get 6mb per second
Government 10mb per second
So there actually is internet,you have to go to an internet cafe and get a subscription,then you will use a router.hope that helps.
“There’s no Internet” and 3 seconds later “actually there is but…” 😂😂😂😂
Im from iran and its almost the same situation but less strict like for example i have to use a vpn to use youtube
"Yo i want to book a flight out of this country"
"Sorry, you can't"
"What?"
I remember when I lived there wasting money on vpns every week😢
Nice to see our beacons of freedom shining light in the dark