Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest

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Post by giuliomagnifico » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:45 AM UTC

Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest
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#2

Post by rtx » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:33 AM UTC

Chinese we were real visionaries here, rest of the countries are catching up.

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Post by m00dy » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:35 AM UTC

I agree with Turkey's position here.

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Post by m_a_g » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:38 AM UTC

Although not outright blocking those websites is a step up, a 90% bandwidth cut is almost the same as blocking them.

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Post by dastx » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:40 AM UTC

rtx wrote: post #2

Chinese we were real visionaries here, rest of the countries are catching up.

China is banning twitter because China wants to control who sees what on the platform, which I'm presuming Twitter has refused to do. There's nothing visionary about this. It's called censorship.

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Post by dastx » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:42 AM UTC

m_a_g wrote: post #4

Although not outright blocking those websites is a step up, a 90% bandwidth cut is almost the same as blocking them.

It's probably a warning of "do what we say or we'll block you because we can't control what you have on your platform". It's a step in the censorship direction.

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Post by mrkeen » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:42 AM UTC

rtx wrote: post #2

Chinese we were real visionaries here, rest of the countries are catching up.

Does China not have ads?

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Post by Synaesthesia » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:42 AM UTC

dastx wrote: post #5

rtx wrote: post #2

Chinese we were real visionaries here, rest of the countries are catching up.

China is banning twitter because China wants to control who sees what on the platform, which I'm presuming Twitter has refused to do. There's nothing visionary about this. It's called censorship.

I think they also don't want to cede control of their tech marketplace to US competitors like Google, Twitter, Facebook etc which is what could happen if they just allow anything in.

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Post by rtx » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:46 AM UTC

mrkeen wrote: post #7

rtx wrote: post #2

Chinese we were real visionaries here, rest of the countries are catching up.

Does China not have ads?

Not without representation.

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Post by roenxi » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:47 AM UTC

There are a lot of right-wing governments in the world. I can't see the argument for them letting the SV tech companies enter their markets unmolested. If Trump can be banned, why not Erdogan? I imagine it is on the cards sooner or later.

At some point that and the access it gives US intelligence agencies to the population has to become a national security issue. China's policy of locking US companies out of the Chinese market looks prudent in hindsight.