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Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by 4gotunameagain »

throwawayccp wrote: post #93
coffeeblack wrote: post #67

Just 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 agree with funding cuts to the CCP, but there's an argument to be made that de-globalisation is a sure fire way to global conflict..

Mutual interests tend to keep things civilised

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by sockaddr »

throwawayccp wrote: post #93
coffeeblack wrote: post #67

Just 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.

Yup. I’m (trying) to do the same. Every little mindless purchase I used to make to fix some minor inconvenience slowly adds up to real harm for someone else at the hands of the CCP.

Please stop buying from China.

In fact, in recent times Lithuania has been a force for good against China, I’d suggest seeking out their goods if applicable to your needs.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by ravel-bar-foo »

MonkeyClub wrote: post #8
m000 wrote: post #4

Elections are around the corner, and Erdogan's approval ratings have been dropping even before the earthquake. Just saying...

Things might get even hairier given the elections and the popularity drop due to both politics and the earthquake. It’s possible that a state of emergency on account of the earthquake will postpone the elections.

In other countries the population will unite after natural disasters, and leadership is usually given credit for the response as long as they continue support for local response efforts set up in the immediate aftermath. Why would popularity of the leader drop so quickly due to an earthquake? It's been what 36 hours. At this point almost all committed resources will still be highly local...

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by Kukumber »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #98
Kukumber wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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).

They are in charge of the disinformation/moderation teams

An example: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondberman/

They are in most social media companies

So they can decide what to ban that could hinder their national social order

Something Turkey can't do with Twitter, hence a ban, just like the US with TikTok and the pseudo "algorithm"

With the amount of misinformation that spreads in Twitter, it is the right thing to do

It was similar with Iran, and that coincides with Musk purchasing Twitter and dismantling the moderation team making it unable to function at all

https://news.yahoo.com/twitters-content-moderation-team-repo...

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by seydor »

IG_Semmelweiss wrote: post #18
Darmody wrote: post #12

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.

There is a difference between war and executive priviledges. 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.

> is acting in his capacity as the elected representative

You can be the "elected representative" of anything if you put everyone else in jail

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by joshuaissac »

Kukumber wrote: post #92
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…

> 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…

> wich btw gives flashbacks of the failed coup by the mossad

Turkey has not even accused Mossad of being involved in the failed coup d'etat.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by alex3305 »

blagie wrote: post #90
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?"

There was an official name change [1] to Türkiye.

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/2/un-registers-turkiye...

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