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The aim is to suppress journalists from spreading corruption scandals and silence whistleblowers and leaks. Basically if you tweet I found this on wikileaks, yo
by terminalcommand 4y ago
The aim is to suppress journalists from spreading corruption scandals and silence whistleblowers and leaks. Basically if you tweet I found this on wikileaks, you'll get jailed first then you will await your trial. Or if you like a whistleblower's tweet, you'll get jailed.
The public elections are around the corner, the governing party is losing votes. The economy is in ruins. Corruption scandals pop up everywhere.
For example just last week we heard that the address registration system used for voting somehow added unknown foreign persons as residences to people's homes. Or there are tweets of people that they somehow got registered to the governing party as members against their will without any application. This is only visible if you login to e-government and check.
The governing party does everything in its power to win the elections. In the last election, they even counted votes without seals to win. In the election before that the opposition won, Erdogan lost. Guess what happened, bombs went off, chaos insued, there was a re-election and Erdogan was elected again.
It is a mess really. Wish us luck.
- ianai 4y agoI’m so sorry. I fear this happening in my own country sooner than later. This is an example of censorship being bad because the actual censors won’t be who anyone should want deciding those things. Possibly the better outcome would be for individuals to learn to take the internet with a massive grain of salt.
- terminalcommand 4y agoThank you. The worst part is that this is planned carefully. You don't notice it but they strip away each right you have slowly and gradualy until you can't fight back. It is kind of like 1984 in real life.