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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday March 06 2018, @07:37AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @07:37AM (#648405) Journal

    What's the point in pausing before you start a new line?

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday March 06 2018, @01:50PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 06 2018, @01:50PM (#648487) Journal
    Fair point - I have a script that allows me to press the Enter key on the numeric keypad to submit. This means I don't have to move my hand from the keyboard to the mouse to press the 'Submit' button. I had forgotten that it was a local thing...