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Now that this has all failed, and Turkey is aligning with Russia geo-politically, this does need to be taken into consideration when talking about propaganda and what really is happening.
I don't understand what the problem is. How is this any different from the Queen of England taking over the entire UK airwaves for a half-hour speech on Christmas Day? /s
The difference is you can opt to not listen to the Queen, here you have no other choice, the message is played for any call you make.
The other side of the story - US and NATO tried to overthrow the Turkish president, and turn Turkey into Syria, 2 times in a row just recently. They also attempted to start a war between Turkey and Russia just before these attempts. Now that this has all failed, and Turkey is aligning with Russia geo-politically, this does need to be taken into consideration when talking about propaganda and what really is happening…
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The difference is you can opt to not listen to the Queen, here you have no other choice, the message is played for any call you make.
Can you opt not to have a Queen and not be a subject to some royal family you never voted for or agreed to?
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The difference is you can opt to not listen to the Queen, here you have no other choice, the message is played for any call you make.
To play devil's advocate: you can opt to not listen to Erdogan, just wait until he is finished. I believe he's right, the Queen's message is similar.
Thus the analogy breaks twofold. First, while the radio works as expected under these conditions, the telephone does not. Secondly, opting out means to take some action without affecting anything else than what you are opting out from. If you consider opting out in this context, it's clear that waiting can not be considered to be an action we take, and thus can't be considered a way of opting out, our waiting in line could be considered to be "opting out of standing in line", an obvious contradiction.
I wonder how would things have been if Turket had been accepted to EU 10 years ago. Would it have helped?
So broadly speaking, NO.
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They did play a message from Ergodan when you call any number but only for clients of 2 mobile operators: Turkcell and Vodafone. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/telefonla-konusmak-isteyenlere-er... Link in turkish but it confirms what this post says.
Implementations for something as "innovative" as this are bound to be spotty early on. Is there even pre-existing infrastructure/services/software support in typical networks for stunts like this or was this something they had to build? Did they need to involve their network infra suppliers? For Turkcell that's fully outsourced to Ericsson; network hardware, services implementation, ops, etc etc; pretty much everythi…
As for the ethical implication there's none. This exact functionality would be extremely helpful in case of an actual emergency.