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Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by sokols »

bigmattystyles wrote: post #147
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…

Erdogan and his ilk single-handedly made me hesitant about donating, that regardless who I donate to, they’ll find a way to line their pockets. I ended up donating, do the same, but Erdogan is a bastard man.

You can donate here: https://ahbap.org/disasters-turkey

It's an NGO that currently is crowdsourcing donations for the relief.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by cpursley »

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.

Where was the device and it’s components you typed this comment out on made?

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by jrochkind1 »

EricE wrote: post #159
jrochkind1 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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).

Good god - the FBI recently got outed (Twitter files - Elon Musk - hello?) paying more than $30M to Twitter to do their bidding. Are you really this ignorant of current events?

It's pretty clear we all these days live in different bubbles, of what is "widely known current events".

Googling, it looks like it was $3 million, not $30 million, for data requested with court order for such, rather than for suppressing speech or other control? It was still the FBI, not the CIA? This one?

https://reason.com/2022/12/19/the-fbi-paid-twitter-3-4-milli...

Yes, I legitimately didn't know what the GP I was replying to was suggesting that the CIA controlled, what "them" meant. Now that they replied, I understand what they are suggesting, and think they are... living in a different bubble than me.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by alphanullmeric »

barbazoo wrote: post #161
alphanullmeric wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curiously, all the people that support such censorship in western countries are actually against it in this instance. Almost like whether or not they choose to support a policy depends not on what it does but instead on who it’s being done to.

I hope you actually went and asked everybody.

Starting with you, do you support social media censorship in the United States? And do you support social media censorship by turkey? Those are yes or no questions.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by moremetadata »

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…

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Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by andybak »

PM_me_your_math wrote: post #68
golergka wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

These companies are already in the dark deep of hyper partisan censorship. Take reddit for example. Nearly every sub is a left wing echo chamber, with essentially the same comment being made, and opposing viewpoints hidden, shadow-banned, or deleted under the guise of 'disinformation' even if they are factually accurate. Some of it is partly driven by liaisons within US and other governments, and supported by media.…

Except you can start your own subreddit and choose your own moderation policies. The inaccurately named /r/conservative has a lot of traffic and there are many more.
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