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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @11:05PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @11:05PM (#648242)

    Make whatever argument you want about the conditions which led to Hitler's rise, I'm not arguing that the events didn't surround an election or even that Hitler's performance in the election didn't lead to his appointment as chancellor, but saying "Hitler was democratically elected" is false. Hitler wasn't anything elected. Hitler lost the 1932 election, he was APPOINTED Chancellor, and he DECLARED HIMSELF Fuhrer.

    Say he was popular if you want, that's true; calling him a democratically elected leader is a lie.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:11AM (#648415)

    Say he was popular if you want, that's true; calling him a democratically elected leader is a lie.

    So like Trump, who LOST an election by popular vote and was then APPOINTED by the Electoral College. Then he is praising dictators and soon wants to declare himself as Emperor of America (or at least President for Life). something like that?

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:59AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:59AM (#648430) Homepage
    The president has almost no power in the executive branch, only the chancellor does. And Hitler won - through a plurality - the election for chancellor.

    Just because you've only ever encountered majority as a decision criterion doesn't mean that plurality doesn't exist. (And as many coallitions prove, the majority provided by the coallition is effectively just leverage of a plurality position.)

    Hindenberg did have the power to veto this, that's all. And given the trend in the results of the two elections, he should have done.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:15PM (#648704)

      Hitler was not elected Chancellor. Hitler was appointed Chancellor by the President, who WAS elected, in response to Hitler's performance in the election which he lost.

      You are grasping at straws to justify a factually incorrect application of Godwin's Law. The Chancellor is not an elected office. Hitler was not elected.