🧵#Turkey #SocialMedia #Twitter #FreedomOfSpeech
Ömer Çelik called social media companies the source of digital fascism and digital dictatorship, saying the platforms pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty.
The reason? 👇2⃣3⃣4⃣
stockholmcf.org/social-media-p…
Ömer Çelik called social media companies the source of digital fascism and digital dictatorship, saying the platforms pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty.
The reason? 👇2⃣3⃣4⃣
stockholmcf.org/social-media-p…
2⃣A tweet posted by President Erdoğan’s far-right ally Bahçeli that referred to students protesting the appointment of a pro-government rector to Boğaziçi University as “poisonous snakes whose heads need to be crushed” has been removed by Twitter.
3⃣In his tweets, Bahçeli called those demonstrating against Melih Bulu, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) recently appointed as rector by Erdoğan, “terrorists,” “vandals” and “barbarians.”
4⃣Twitter limited access to 2 tweets by IM Soylu referring to 🏳️🌈 people as “perverts” that were posted after two Boğaziçi students had been arrested on charges of inciting hatred and insulting religious values in a poster depicting the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site in Mecca, with🏳️🌈
5⃣#Turkey accusing Twitter and social media, meanwhile 👇
6⃣By the end of 2019, 🇹🇷 authorities have blocked access to 408,494 websites, 130,000 URLs, 7,000 Twitter accounts, 40,000 tweets, 10,000 YouTube videos and 6,200 pieces of Facebook content, acc to research carried out by the Freedom of Expression Association’s (İFÖD) EngelliWeb
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