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It's either that or Twitter will be completely blocked in Turkey. They're playing a tough game but at least it's a game that the Turkish public can play too, as
by archivator 12y ago
It's either that or Twitter will be completely blocked in Turkey. They're playing a tough game but at least it's a game that the Turkish public can play too, as long as you're faster than the censors.
The alternative is for the government to take down the entire game field.
- fsniper 12y agoThey have blocked twitter before, Youtube is even blocked right now. But knowing twitter is starting to bow Turkish government’s requests is not assuring anyone. It's blocking accounts right now. But what may come afterwards is really worrisome. Also Starting with Turkish government will mean other governments will start the same tactics against Twitter. So any non-Turkish citizen should fear about what is about to come.
- afsina 12y agoOr, they just did the expected. Those accounts were unlawful and there were court orders against them. You or I may disagree with it does not matter.
- stfu 12y agoThe question is at what point a service has to accept local laws. Like when a country bans "sexual images" or certain pictures of "prophets" or criticism of its political leaders, does Twitter, or for that matter any other service - esp. Google, has to bow to that law.
- Karunamon 12y agoI'd imagine at the point that the options become "comply with the law" or "deny access to that locality".
- fsniper 12y agoLike any whistle-blowing.It's illegal so no one should whistle-blow and any corruption should stay hidden.
- dobbsbob 12y agoThese accounts will just switch to Russian social media or blogs.mail.ru which have Turkish language support and would be happy to host corruption docs of the Erdogan regime. Then use twitter to spread links to it. Nothing twitter can do if thousands of Turkish twitter users are linking to pastebin entries and other moving targets hosting links where to get these docs.
- fsniper 12y agoWe have seen haramzadeler switch accounts from @haramzadereler1 to @haramzadeler333 and many numbers in between beforehand. So they will just switch accounts hence it's a matter of time before twitter bows and creates a special api for AKP government just to deny any account they want.
- mrtksn 12y agofunny, pastebin is blocked in Turkey. The censorship is not conservative in turkey
- afsina 12y agoFor Twitter, they preferred complying with the law. If there would not be large interest groups on this event and only known individuals would be acting, I would symphatise. But sorry IMHO this case is too dodgy to call "whistle blowing".
- fsniper 12y agoReally? So in your opinion letting people learn about prime ministry level corruption and ministry level threats of starting war with Syria is not whistle blowing? I think you also believe the recordings are montages.
- higherpurpose 12y agoCourt has declared they can't block Twitter, so it was unblocked. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/world/middleeast/turkey-twitter.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/world/middleeast/turkey-tw... This was not an issue. Anyway, after Twitter's former lawyer, the one who was fighting for civil rights issue suddenly left, I knew it's all downhill from there for Twitter in terms of fighting for civil rights of their users. Can't wait for Twister to be mature enough. http://twister.net.co/ http://twister.net.co/