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UPDATE: Facebook has joined YouTube and TikTok to appoint a legal entity in Turkey to comply with Turkish draconian social media law. Twitter, Periscope, and Pinterest stayed strong against the requirements of the Law. Now, the Turkish regulator (BTK) has sanctioned them by prohibiting Turkish taxpayers from placing ads and making payments to them. If twitter, Periscope, and Pinterest continue to refuse to appoint a representative until April 2021, the BTK can apply to a Criminal Judgeship of Peace to throttle the provider’s bandwidth initially by 50%. The Turkish government should refrain from imposing disproportionate sanctions, given their significant chilling effect on freedom of expression. ....
Jan 10 2021 01:19 Gmt+3 Last Updated On: Jan 11 2021 08:51 Gmt+3 Social media companies such as YouTube and TikTok should not give into a recent Turkish law which imposes tighter controls on their platforms, said the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a civil and digital rights nonprofit organisation. The statement comes after Tiktok, a Chinese video-sharing social network, announced on Friday it would set up a legal entity in Turkey to serve as a local representative to comply with the new social media law Turkish parliament ratified in July. YouTube made a similar announcement in December. The bill stipulates that social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram must appoint a legal representative in Turkey to whom courts can turn to make requests to remove content or provide the identity of users. ....
Democracy in Turkey is in a deep crisis. Its ruling party, led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, systematically silences marginalized voices, shuts down dissident TV channels, sentences journalists, and disregards the European Court of Human Rights decisions. As we wrote in November, in this oppressive. ....