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Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by poulpy123 »

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…

I've read report that Turkey bombarded part of Kurdish syria that suffered from the earthquake yesterday

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by madaxe_again »

sokols wrote: post #181
bigmattystyles wrote: post #147

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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.

And there is what, precisely, to prevent Erdogan and his cronies from just seizing the funds and arresting the principals? These bank accounts are in Turkey.

I would honestly be more comfortable using the likes of PayPal, as it’s less likely to be stolen by the government.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by puszczyk »

jstummbillig wrote: post #129
throwawayccp wrote: post #93

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This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.

Why do you write this on a throw away?

Because they take notes, and they may come for the OP one day?

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by Mortiffer »

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,…

Also a lot of the big VPN brands are blocked so its hard for a regular person to get one. I recently helped someone out to get one required us to iterate through a number of providers each time me sending them the binary over signal so they can try it out. Spoiler: mullvad vpn was first to go through

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

blagie wrote: post #128
alex3305 wrote: post #110

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There was an official name change [1] to Türkiye. 1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/2/un-registers-turkiye...

I'm very well aware of that. Whenever I've been on the receiving end of a name change like that, I (and everyone I knew) found it obnoxious. However, cultures differ. Turkey has a long history with name changes, and has been rather aggressive about them. When it became "Turkey," the post office wouldn't deliver mail unless the new name was used. Likewise, the capital has gone through two names since "Byzantium." I wa…

They got fed up with Google search returning stuff about birds.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by latchkey »

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…

The background behind him seems like two people watching live drone footage.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by FpUser »

blackoil wrote: post #143
throwawayccp wrote: post #93

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This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China. No more funding CCP.

If that's your hill, add Turkey, India and Russia to the list. Brazil we'll know in few days.

The list is actually much longer. Also the should consider to stop buying things made by prison labor.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by 0xDEF »

At any other time this would have been more proof that Erdogan is blatantly authoritarian. However right now there is a lot of insidious fake news and disinfo on Turkish twitter. Many newly created bot accounts are pushing lies about Ukrainian refugees in Turkey, that they were hoarding aid intended for earthquake victims and stealing from the bodies of the dead. Twitter seems to be the only major social media platform that is not removing and banning these insidious lies and bot accounts.

Many Turkish people are instead using Facebook to organize help and aid efforts and it's more effective than twitter because even small towns already have Facebook Groups and Pages.

Re: Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

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Post by PurpleRamen »

beefield wrote: post #174
NotYourLawyer wrote: post #112

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The solution to bad speech is more speech. Not less.

ChatGPT integrations to online forums: Hold my beer.

Give it 3 days, and it will populate the myth that purple elephants are responsible for 9/11, because their pink mousy overlords demanded more moon-rock cheese with lizard-flavor.
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