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

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

canopic jug writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 06 2018, @01:59AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Tuesday March 06 2018, @01:59AM (#648301) Homepage Journal

    Anyway, prison, executions, beatings, etc. are generally internal problems. Do you think they're something a country should be invaded over? If so, then you must necessarily believe the US, China, and Russia should all be invaded, and I don't know who's going to take on that task. You can't force a country to treat its people well without resorting to extreme tactics usually,

    I didn't say that I thought Germany (or anyone else) should be invaded for that sort of thing, although certainly there should be harsh words, perhaps embargoes/sanctions and other diplomatic pressure from those with a conscience.

    But you explicitly said that there were "no problems" before the invasion of Poland. Leaving Czechoslovakia aside, I'd say that those were definitely problems. Are you of the opinion that whatever a government does to its citizens is just fine? Or were you just imprecise?

    If not, can I assume your response to hearing about that sort of thing would be something like "Boy howdy! That's great! How many did you kill this week? Good for you!"?

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