X Blocks Jailed Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu's Account

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/jailed-istanbul-mayor-imamoglus-x-account-blocked-turkey-2025-05-08/

by abiogenesis • 1 year ago

29 7 1 year ago

Social media platform X blocked the account of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose detention sparked nationwide protests.

leftcenterright• 1 year ago

Despite modern VPNs, global CDNs, impractical technical level ban on any web service: how come X and others simply do what the government tells them?

Is it the fear of fines? That never deters them from collecting more data though.

numpad0• 1 year ago

Why resist? They've captured governments well enough. They don't need leverages for political infighting.

Powers to oppress the users and precedents to normalizing it, OTOH, is nice(to them).

throwawayqqq11• 1 year ago

I have to admit, for brief moment i was optimistic when musk announced, he will fix social media (twitter). Long time ago.

This notion of censorship or filtering, but this time the right -- your way, is the same problem only with a different sign. If musk would realize that most people, no matter their political views, see it this way and will seek new platforms eventually, he might do something positive about it. Maybe.

watwut• 1 year ago

X does what goverment tells them when they don't mind doing what goverment tells them. They resist when Musk minds the action.

victorbjorklund• 1 year ago

Because Musk doesnt care about democracy in Turkey. He just think free speech is for MAGA.

bigbadfeline• 1 year ago

"Because Musk doesnt care about democracy in Turkey."

He hates democracy in X, where X ranges over every country, or community for that matter. Turkey is just the current high-value target.

As his mentor put it "Competition is for losers", Musk salutes that, search for "Musk salutes" to see how.

X Blocks Jailed Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu's Account

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