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This is so sad because twitter is still mainly used by people to help each other, e.g. to tell where help is needed or who can help.
I wonder why.
In the case of protests etc I'd understand the goal behind it from certain actors involved, but why in this case?
People asked Elon Musk on twitter to deploy Starlink to Turkey and he said he can't because it is not approved. I wonder why.
In the case of protests etc I'd understand the goal behind it from certain actors involved, but why in this case?
People asked Elon Musk on twitter to deploy Starlink to Turkey and he said he can't because it is not approved. I wonder why.
The former (Russia) unilaterally imposed a decision (war) on another government and its people.
The latter (erdogan) is acting in his capacity as the elected representative of the people.
Starlink cannot override the decision of the elected executive. He needs approval for that.
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, many people are used to using VPN because of these blocks which also happened in the past, but not everyone is tech savvy and it's not reliable for life-or-death situations.
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 particular.
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.
The head of communications of Erdogan even introduced an app to streamline "reporting disinformation". Like, it's the second day after a massive earthquake and they published a f*king app to snitch people. Here is the announcement of the app, early at 05:00 local time in the morning 24 hours after the quake: https://twitter.com/fahrettinaltun/status/162277720485259264...
Also there were many incidents of the mainstream media cutting of talks or turning away the camera when people said or did anything discrediting the official narrative.
Yesterday, some people with prominent accounts who shared the tweets from the people in the region began reporting that they were taken into custody by the police. I guess the day has come quickly.