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Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by MonkeyClub »

mrtksn wrote: post #20

Erdogan's first speech was almost 2 days after the earthquake and he said "We are monitoring who said what on the social media and tried to provoke the people. Today it's not the day to go after those but we take notes and when the day comes, we will go after them". Just look at his face when delivering this speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doy38aKbMw4 It's like from V for Vendetta. The lighting choice is very…

> Just look at his face when delivering this speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doy38aKbMw4

I'm only half-snickering here, because the atmospheric choices are indeed very particular and telling.

But the face (and its expression) has looked like this at least in the past 10 years. That's telling as well, you may say :)

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by foronetimeonly1 »

can16358p wrote: post #19

Turkish here. This is unbelievable, but totally expected from the current "democractic" government. Social media usage is very high in Türkiye and people are coordinating using social media (mainly Twitter) for rescue operations in near realtime. I'm pretty much sure some people will literally die under wreckage because of communication interruptions as the result of this block. (For anyone telling to use VPN, yeah,…

The Diyanet said "Do not look to social media for hope in finding loved ones, look to Allah". A few minutes later twitter was blocked. I think god is jealous of Twitter today.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by OulaX »

can16358p wrote: post #19

Turkish here. This is unbelievable, but totally expected from the current "democractic" government. Social media usage is very high in Türkiye and people are coordinating using social media (mainly Twitter) for rescue operations in near realtime. I'm pretty much sure some people will literally die under wreckage because of communication interruptions as the result of this block. (For anyone telling to use VPN, yeah,…

The networks are already overloaded, introducing a VPN into the mix might even make them unusable for some people!

Unfortunately, this is a tragic situation.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by beefield »

golergka wrote: post #39
mrtksn wrote: post #20

Erdogan's first speech was almost 2 days after the earthquake and he said "We are monitoring who said what on the social media and tried to provoke the people. Today it's not the day to go after those but we take notes and when the day comes, we will go after them". Just look at his face when delivering this speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doy38aKbMw4 It's like from V for Vendetta. The lighting choice is very…

This is one of many, many reasons why western countries and social media companies should not normalise censorship re-branded like "fighting disinformation".

How do you propose western countries and social media companies fight disinformation?

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by unityByFreedom »

coffeeblack wrote: post #70
saiya-jin wrote: post #57

This is playbook of scumbag tyrants, doesn't matter if Putin, Erdogan or similar. I for sure hope EU politicians are taking a note too, there are 2 existential threats to democratic free Europe long term - Russia and Turkey. Both have same ambitions, are on completely opposite side of all crucial values free world holds dear. Luckily their competence severely lags behind their ambitions, to think Turkey was for some…

You are underestimating the threat that CCP China is, not just to Europe but to the entire world.

China's exit, as happened 70-80 years ago, would cause us to have to work more. That might not be such a bad thing, though I doubt it will happen to the same degree. It's still fresh in everyone's mind.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by PM_me_your_math »

bloaf wrote: post #29

There is/was an active disinformation campaign on Twitter attempting to link the earthquake to Türkiye denying Nato expansion. The ridiculous conspiracy theory is that the US used a HAARP system to cause the earthquake in retaliation. Not saying that's the reason for the ban, but twitter is not solely a force for good here.

That's annoying. HAARP is essentially just a steerable RF beam that heats the ionosphere for RF propagation research, or can be used to bounce RF off of the moon. Neither have any effects on fault line stress or slippage that I am aware of.

So herein lies the point of all this.

People who know its bullshit, know its bullshit, and can tell other people (who don't know) that it is bullshit.

It should not be up to any government or company to use force or coercion to meter any idea or speech unless it is, on the rarest of occasion, illegal.

Our civilization is more connected than ever before. We have access to untold volumes of knowledge. Greater than any library in history. If he were alive today, Aristarchus of Samothrace, the 6th head librarian of the Library of Alexandria, would give his left nut for just 10 minutes on the internet.

We built a vast and wonderful civilization that is almost to the star-faring stage, and we did it without government censors or censorship by ideologues. The very notion of some bureaucrat, state actor, or crybully mod deciding what you should think or read insults the collective intelligence and struggle for absolute truth from the last 2500 years of human history.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by blagie »

can16358p wrote: post #19

Turkish here. This is unbelievable, but totally expected from the current "democractic" government. Social media usage is very high in Türkiye and people are coordinating using social media (mainly Twitter) for rescue operations in near realtime. I'm pretty much sure some people will literally die under wreckage because of communication interruptions as the result of this block. (For anyone telling to use VPN, yeah,…

Off-topic: Do most people there prefer "Türkiye" or "Turkey?"
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