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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
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 06 2018, @05:31PM
Do you refuse to edit anything you ever write, even though you're on a computer? Perhaps you should apply that logic to everything you do on a computer: once written, you can never change it. If you write some code and it has a bug, you're not allowed to use an editor to modify the code, you just have to live with it.
The whole reason computers (and "word processors" - specialized computers) took over from typewriters back in the 80s was because it was easy to edit documents. Are you saying this is a mistake?
Maybe you should disable the "back" button on your phone too while you're at it, and disable the backspace key on your keyboard.