Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
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Re: Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
#2If countries and companies are not going to have anti disinformation protocols, they might as well outright implement dictatorship.
Deterrence is a good thing.
Re: Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
#3Sigh. Yet more censorship. Just what the world needs.
Re: Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
#4Hold on.. not false statements, not defamation, not calls for violence… but “disinformation.”
Except that we find out that many things were disinformation every day. My family is increasingly paranoid after the Pfizer executive said they never tested whether their vaccine prevented transmission to the EU a few days ago. Apparently that is not new information technically speaking, but it is so counter-narrative it boggles the mind (what the hell was “protect Grandma” then? A hopeful wish?). Would I have risked jail for saying that in Turkey, had this law been in place, a year ago?
Re: Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
#5If countries and companies are not going to have anti disinformation protocols, they might as well outright implement dictatorship. Deterrence is a good thing.
That sounds exceptionally beneficial to whoever gets to define what is and isn't "misinformation," and you're kidding yourself if you think that it'll only ever be used in benevolence and not to the benefit of whatever picotyrant is in charge at a given moment.
Re: Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
#6Hold on.. not false statements, not defamation, not calls for violence… but “disinformation.” Except that we find out that many things were disinformation every day. My family is increasingly paranoid after the Pfizer executive said they never tested whether their vaccine prevented transmission to the EU a few days ago. Apparently that is not new information technically speaking, but it is so counter-narrative it bog…
> Would I have risked jail for saying that in Turkey, had this law been in place, a year ago?
If it is against a government narrative, sure.
Re: Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
#7Hold on.. not false statements, not defamation, not calls for violence… but “disinformation.” Except that we find out that many things were disinformation every day. My family is increasingly paranoid after the Pfizer executive said they never tested whether their vaccine prevented transmission to the EU a few days ago. Apparently that is not new information technically speaking, but it is so counter-narrative it bog…
The aim is to suppress journalists from spreading corruption scandals and silence whistleblowers and leaks. Basically if you tweet I found this on wikileaks, you'll get jailed first then you will await your trial. Or if you like a whistleblower's tweet, you'll get jailed.
The public elections are around the corner, the governing party is losing votes. The economy is in ruins. Corruption scandals pop up everywhere.
For example just last week we heard that the address registration system used for voting somehow added unknown foreign persons as residences to people's homes. Or there are tweets of people that they somehow got registered to the governing party as members against their will without any application. This is only visible if you login to e-government and check.
The governing party does everything in its power to win the elections. In the last election, they even counted votes without seals to win. In the election before that the opposition won, Erdogan lost. Guess what happened, bombs went off, chaos insued, there was a re-election and Erdogan was elected again.
It is a mess really. Wish us luck.
Re: Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
#8If countries and companies are not going to have anti disinformation protocols, they might as well outright implement dictatorship. Deterrence is a good thing.
That sounds exceptionally beneficial to whoever gets to define what is and isn't "misinformation," and you're kidding yourself if you think that it'll only ever be used in benevolence and not to the benefit of whatever picotyrant is in charge at a given moment.
It’s the people using it “purely for benevolence” that you have to be the most worried about!
Re: Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
#9Hold on.. not false statements, not defamation, not calls for violence… but “disinformation.” Except that we find out that many things were disinformation every day. My family is increasingly paranoid after the Pfizer executive said they never tested whether their vaccine prevented transmission to the EU a few days ago. Apparently that is not new information technically speaking, but it is so counter-narrative it bog…
the idea of the vaccine was always to prevent bad effects of infection, not infection as such. However, it usually helps with the latter as well but whatever.
However, what the big social media sites really need (instead of laws against disinformation) is downvotes. If the metric is only engagement then enragement is good, but actually it shouldnt (necessarily) be.
Re: Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’
#10Time to remove Turkey from NATO