Turkey’s president cracks down on social media

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Social-media giants will have 48 hours to comply with Turkish requests to remove content, or face advertising bans, fines and eventually bandwidth cuts

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has already neutered the traditional media, putting critical journalists out of work or behind bars and using friendly tycoons to take over the country’s top newspapers and news channels. Now he has taken aim at the internet.

The government says the law will protect social-media users from abuse and disinformation. Critics say it will become a powerful censorship tool. Turkey already blocks at least 400,000 websites, says a report by the Freedom of Expression Association, a rights group, and churns out more Twitter and Reddit content-removal requests than any other country.

 

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Nuke him !

Turkish people will ban Tayyip Erdoğan in the closest elections.

RECEP TAYYİP ERDOĞAN dünyanın en asil lideridir, TÜRKİYE halkıda başkanının yanındadır 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

Meanwhile, media and social media continue to downplay Erdogan's egregious confiscation of a church to convert it into a mosque.

No more vacations to Turkey

This is the right thing to do. Social media is being used in a distorted way, and this companies are offering their services for whoever is generous enough. Yet, there is a fine line between protection and censorship.

Lmao y'all remember when the Economist was pro-Erdoğan?

He just got off a midnight call with the Donald who gave him all sorts of social-media incursion ideas.

1984

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