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Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
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Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
#92Erdogan'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…
> Twitter was heavily used to seek help by people in turmoil, even hundreds of people were posting from under the rubbles. The officials were claiming that everything was under control and they are helping everyone but people were posting videos showing the situation on the ground and the situation didn't look even close to being under control.
Social media is the first target no matter the country
The US do the exact same [1], they control them with CIA agents [1*], so it is easier for them to do profiling rather than blocking it
In fact, it's the first thing the US want to do for foreign apps, to ban them, just like with TikTok [2], they are recent talks about a global ban too
So we can't just throw the stone at Turkey, you have to examinate the situation, they had a terrorist attack in Istanbul in november [3], mossad agents doing shady things [4], wich btw gives flashbacks of the failed coup by the mossad [5] (imagine if the coup succeeded knowing how the Ukraine-Russia conflict developped and the current issues in Azerbaijan-Armenia, they dodged something sinister)
Twitter is known to be a place with lot of political activity, it's easy for a foreign country to spread misinformation, there are lot of noise
And Twitter is not the most popular social media app in Turkey, plus the population in that region is not tech savvy either
[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/federal-agents-mon...
[1#] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-r...
[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/30/us-tiktok...
[3] - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63615076
[4] - https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-world/2023/1/11...
[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
#93Just like in China with the anti-lockdown protests. The people who are recognisable on social media posts from the protests have all been arrested by now. They waited just long enough to make people forget about it before they picked them up one by one.
This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
#94Just like in China with the anti-lockdown protests. The people who are recognisable on social media posts from the protests have all been arrested by now. They waited just long enough to make people forget about it before they picked them up one by one.
Same with all of the russian protests.
Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
#95I live in Turkey and was very close to the earthquake epicenter. I can say that communication in affected cities is very limited and Twitter had a real positive effect on organizing help and reaching out to lots of people in the area. So blocking Twitter right now is pure evil. They are only interested in the optics and looking strong for the upcoming election and do not care about anything else. I saw some people wa…
It's a tragedy no nation should face alone. There should be no "looking bad" here, just opportunities to help. Why not embrace that and do whatever you can? Any city would face horrible losses in this situation. Heck, Miami lost half a building on a normal day...
Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
#96Elections are around the corner, and Erdogan's approval ratings have been dropping even before the earthquake. Just saying...
Religion is the Trump card in those countries
Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
#97Just like in China with the anti-lockdown protests. The people who are recognisable on social media posts from the protests have all been arrested by now. They waited just long enough to make people forget about it before they picked them up one by one.
This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
How do you even do that? I make an effort when I have a choice but so often it seems like there is no other choice.
Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
#98Erdogan'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…
> Twitter was heavily used to seek help by people in turmoil, even hundreds of people were posting from under the rubbles. The officials were claiming that everything was under control and they are helping everyone but people were posting videos showing the situation on the ground and the situation didn't look even close to being under control. Social media is the first target no matter the country The US do the exac…
> they control them with CIA agents [1*], so it is easier for them to do profiling rather than blocking it
I don't understand what you're suggesting CIA agents are controlling. What is "them" in "they control them"?
The article you link to involves surveillance (rather than control) by the FBI (rather than CIA).
Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
#99Just like in China with the anti-lockdown protests. The people who are recognisable on social media posts from the protests have all been arrested by now. They waited just long enough to make people forget about it before they picked them up one by one.
This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.
I'd be very interested in this, but it seems hard to determine the extent to which a product was manufactured in China. Do you have any resources that help with this?
Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake
#100I live in Turkey and was very close to the earthquake epicenter. I can say that communication in affected cities is very limited and Twitter had a real positive effect on organizing help and reaching out to lots of people in the area. So blocking Twitter right now is pure evil. They are only interested in the optics and looking strong for the upcoming election and do not care about anything else. I saw some people wa…
Do you think it will actually harm Erdogan's support though, anger over blocking twitter?