Gradual sanctions continue against social media platforms with the enactment of the censorship application against social media on October 1st. Social media networks having been penalised with 40 million Turkish Liras each due to not assigning representatives in Turkey are now facing advertisement bans. Social media networks with millions of users, such as Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest, are no longer allowed to receive ads from Turkey. The next step will be a reduction in the services’ bandwidth. One day before the execution of the advertisement ban, Facebook and Instagram decided to assign representatives in Turkey. Through the companies accepting to open representatives in Turkey, where new access bans are added on top of one another every day, censorship will increase even more. Amnesty International and Article 19 made a joint declaration on the subject and said, “Companies complying with this new strict law, which will silence the opposition, have to announce what concrete steps they will take to respect the right to freedom of expression.”
19.01.2020
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