1. Turkey is in the middle of an extremely close and consequential election. There will be a second round of voting in two weeks.
Make no mistake: @[email protected] is helping the authoritarian government cling to power by censoring tweets from its political opponents
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@[email protected] 2. Twitter announced the decision to censor content in Turkey in a vaguely-worded tweet.
Musk later pledged to "post what the government in Turkey sent us."
Nearly two days later NOTHING HAS BEEN RELEASED
@[email protected] 3. Musk claims this is how things always are done. Turkey demands censorship and social media companies comply.
This is a lie.
Under previous management, Twitter fought Erdoğan's attempts to censor critics
https://popular.info/p/musk-bows-to-turkeys-autocratic-government
Elon Musk, a self-described "free speech absolutist," agreed to censor Twitter in Turkey on Saturday, the day before a critical election, at the request of the nation's autocratic government. The decision is a sharp break from how Twitter responded to the censorship requests of the current regime, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, before Musk bought the company. Musk has lucrative business dealings with the incumbent Turkish government through his company SpaceX.
Not unexpected, right? He was caught censoring for Modi a little while back, no?
Judd Legum
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