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    https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other...ms/ar-BB17p8D3

    Not so private after all.
    Still censoring for the state all the same.
    Chumpettes
    The personal right to be "protected"
    Censoring over words that hurt feelings. Where have we heard this before?
    Social media 90 percent controlled but Private Platform
    Targeting individuals / censorship but Private Platform

    Regulation
    After an overnight debate, the nine-article bill was passed early Wednesday just before parliament closed until October. The law covers social media companies with more than one million daily users in Turkey, such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
    The “Law on the Arrangement of Internet Publication and Combating Crimes Committed Through These Publication”, prepared by Erdogan’s ruling AK Party (AKP) and nationalist allies, requires platforms to have local representatives among other obligations.
    Companies that fail to comply face steep fines, bandwidth reduction and advertising bans. Platforms must also store user data in Turkey, which critics worry could expose the data to Turkish authorities and the judiciary.

    Companies’ local representatives must respond within 48 hours to complaints about posts that violate personal and privacy rights. The new law gives the government the ability to remove content from the platforms rather than only block access.
    Motivation
    The AKP rejects claims the law will lead to censorship and says it aims to protect personal rights and data.

    Earlier this month, Erdogan was angered by tweets mocking his son-in-law and daughter and said the “immoral (social media) platforms” would be “completely banned or controlled”.

    Last week, AKP legislator chair Ozlem Zengin said the bill aimed to balance freedoms and obligations. “Our first priority is never the closure of social media providers. We aim to end insults, bad language and harassment on social media,” she said.
    Background
    Some 90% of mainstream media has come under direct or indirect government control in the last decade, leading Turks to turn to social media for critical voices and independent news.

    Still, users are frequently tried for insulting Erdogan or his ministers, and for criticism of Ankara’s cross-border military operations and its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
    Mehmet Gun, founder of the Better Justice Association, said Turkey had blocked access to 408,494 websites, 130,000 URLs, 7,000 Twitter accounts and 10,000 YouTube videos as well as other content in the last several years.
    Ankara has also in the past temporarily blocked access to Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia.
    Reaction
    Groups including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders campaigned against the law on the grounds it would lead to censorship and silence dissent. Here is some reaction:

    Scott Griffen, deputy director of the International Press Ins ute: “This law brings the Turkish censorship regime into the social media space. It is a serious blow to free expression online, and will only lead to further persecution of journalists and other independent voices in Turkey.”
    Yaman Akdeniz, law professor and cyber rights expert at Istanbul Bilgi University: “Turkey has become a hostile place for network development because democratic principles and ins utions are not functioning. The judiciary is not independent and there is no due process.”

    Wolfango Piccoli, analyst at Teneo Securities: “The law will enable the government to control social media, to have content removed at will, and to arbitrarily target individual users.”

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    Women find you hidious

    Did you post something?

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    Turkeyderp

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    Doesn't stop all your "private platforms" from agreeing to the censorship / removal of rights does it?

    lol derp

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    Doesn't stop all your "private platforms" from agreeing to the censorship / removal of rights does it?

    lol derp
    Derp, you do realize Turkey is not the United States, right?

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    https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other...ms/ar-BB17p8D3

    Not so private after all.
    Still censoring for the state all the same.
    Chumpettes
    The personal right to be "protected"
    Censoring over words that hurt feelings. Where have we heard this before?
    Social media 90 percent controlled but Private Platform
    Targeting individuals / censorship but Private Platform
    This place isn't exactly teeming with apologists for Erdogan or Turkish authoritarianism, I can only suppose you're comparing content moderation to direct state censorship, and singling out people who think it's ok for social media companies to moderate their own platforms for derision.

    Is that more or less right?

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    This place isn't exactly teeming with apologists for Erdogan or Turkish authoritarianism, I can only suppose you're comparing content moderation to direct state censorship, and singling out people who think it's ok for social media companies to moderate their own platforms for derision.

    Is that more or less right?
    Dude moved his goalpost halfway around the world.

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    Can someone paraphrase the point of this thread? Not sure why we should give a about Turkey beyond the fact Trump and Erdogan are apparently similar in their sensitivity towards social media posts.

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    Can someone paraphrase the point of this thread? Not sure why we should give a about Turkey beyond the fact Trump and Erdogan are apparently similar in their sensitivity towards social media posts.
    He wants Trump to control social media like Erdogan does.

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    He wants Trump to control social media like Erdogan does.
    Derpsperate

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    Fascist kamala

    Called it

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    So what are you trying to say, derp?

    Step up.

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    derp ing the football in Turkey

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    Erdogan bad now? Asking for a derp...

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    Can someone paraphrase the point of this thread? Not sure why we should give a about Turkey beyond the fact Trump and Erdogan are apparently similar in their sensitivity towards social media posts.
    Something something Turkey...

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    And Chumpettes okay with Twitter censoring the news.

    the fact twitter has the most users doesn't create an obligations for it to create a platform for right wing fake news. It can censor and not censor whatever it sees fit.

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    And Chumpettes okay with Twitter censoring the news.

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    And Chumpettes okay with Twitter censoring the news.
    Wow hopefully the post can find some way to get their words out

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    Josh Hawley calling the NYPost a "major news outlet" it's a right wing tabloid paper.

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    Is Sen. Hawley familiar with the five freedoms enshrined in the 1st Amendment?

    (lol free speech warriors demanding Twitter and FB run Republican propaganda.)

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    Josh Hawley calling the NYPost a "major news outlet" it's a right wing tabloid paper.
    Rudy is an idiot too... everybody knows he's from NY... ing leak it to Wikileaks... oh wait

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    Rudy is an idiot too... everybody knows he's from NY... ing leak it to Wikileaks... oh wait
    Folded

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    rofl following me around.... I win!

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    But that was Turkey, not America.

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