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posted by janrinok on Monday March 05 2018, @05:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-you-tighten-your-grip dept.

Turkey, positioned geopgraphically on the edge of Europe and politically inside of NATO, has been heading in a troubling direction for some time in regards to speech. Crackdowns on dissent and even open speech are increasing and Internet communications are the specific focus of some of the recent actions. Coming up is legislation intended to curb the Internet (WWW) in ways similar to how television and radio have already been limited:

Having already brought Turkey's mainstream media to heel, and made considerable headway in rolling back Turkish democracy, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has set its sights on a seemingly innocuous target: a satellite television preacher named Adnan Oktar.

[...] "It is just about control," said Kerem Altiparmak, a human rights and media lawyer. "Considering what has been happening in Turkey, I have no doubt this is a hegemonic power, controlling newspapers, TV and the judiciary, that is now out to control the [I]nternet sector."

All the restrictions are made that much easier through increased use of and dependence on centralized services like Facebook by the remaining opposition.

Source : Erdogan's Next Target as He Restricts Turkey's Democracy: The Internet


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  • (Score: -1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @06:50PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @06:50PM (#648089)

    Under capitalism, people could voluntarily interact in such a way that a strong man such as Erdogan rises to power over society—that is, such a man gains the right to allocate a great deal of society's wealth (for instance, Jeff Bezos is such a man, but on a smaller scale). Of course, if such a man begins making poor decisions for society's resources, he will lose his ability to make such decisions over society's wealth (that is, he will lose his purchasing power, property, etc.), and he will thus either fix his errant ways or go bankrupt.

    The problem with Democracy is that morons are readily catapulted up to the lofty driver's seat of a massive, coercive machine that can be steered into steamrolling everyone in its path; capitalism, in contrast, requires people to continually prove their worth as drivers of said machine, and competition within a market implies that there probably won't ever be one powerful driver, anyway.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @07:00PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @07:00PM (#648096)

    This is what amerilards actually believe.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @07:10PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @07:10PM (#648098)

      America has a very strong centralized government, which is supposedly a union of other centralized governments, each of which is staffed according the principles of a representative democracy, which (as implied already) is a philosophy of societal organization that has is anti-capitalism in nature.

      Americans love coercion, but they also love individual freedom.

      This marriage of contradiction has given birth to America.

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @08:25PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @08:25PM (#648149)

        I believe your post is accurate, your title is not. Many morons really do believe in the capitalist "strong man" approach, that is what gave us Trump (along with a few other reasons) and we're seeing what a "master" of capitalism is really like in the White House.

        Rising to the top in a capitalist system absolutely does NOT make someone the strongest and smartest. As a previous article pointed out a majority of wealthy people get there by luck and not merit, though there is usually a mix of both or else we'd probably have a muddy pig for president.. oh.. right. Usually merit is a trait of successful people, usually.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @10:27PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @10:27PM (#648223)

          Government is inherently anti-capitalism; this includes the American government.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:14AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:14AM (#648305)

            Government is inherently anti-capitalism; this includes the American government.

            And anarcho-capitalists like you are inherently idiots with little grasp of reality and none of history.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:31AM (#648345)

      This is what moron anarcho-capitalists actually believe.

      There. FTFY.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by unauthorized on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:09AM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:09AM (#648414)

    Of course, if such a man begins making poor decisions for society's resources, he will lose his ability to make such decisions over society's wealth

    So, when will GoG overtake Steam with their vastly superior stance on consumer rights?

    Oh that's right never, because people don't work the way your insane pipe dream presumes they do. In reality, most people generally favor the path of least resistance even if you clearly demonstrate the long-term disadvantages of doing so.

    The problem with Democracy is that morons are readily catapulted up to the lofty driver's seat of a massive, coercive machine that can be steered into steamrolling everyone in its path; capitalism, in contrast, requires people to continually prove their worth as drivers of said machine

    Incorrect. Anarcho-capitalism only requires that you beat the competition, which can easily be accomplished through malpractices such as controlling public perception and stiffing competition.