How is what you quoted “standing up” to anything? Am I missing something?
Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months agoX restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.
x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1920426409358455081
“full of shit” = “standing up for free speech against governments that are trying to censor political opponents” ?
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
Am I missing something?
Clearly. Did you not look at the link that I posted? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you might have taken the quoted text and the link as being the same thing, when they are 2 separate things.
The X link is a post from X Global Government Affairs regarding this Turkey censorship situation. Some of the text from it:
X received an order to restrict access in Türkiye to the account of the now-detained Mayor of Istanbul. While we have followed Türkiye’s order regarding the account, we strongly disagree with the order and are challenging the order in court. In the spirit of full transparency, we are sharing the court order and our legal filing below.
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 months ago
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
You don’t seem to understand how the legal system and governments work.
They issued a legal request to censor his account in Turkey. Failure to do so would result in severe consequences for X, such as having to take X offline for all of Turkey.
X complied with the law and are challenging the censorship request in court, the only place that has the power to overrule the government.
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 months ago
I am not a lawyer but I do understand how jurisdictions work. Elon is not in theirs.
If he were a “free speech absolutist” as he claims, he would let them.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
Elon isn’t. X is.