People need to get off this stupid platform. It was bad before without Elon, now it’s just the worse.
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Submitted 4 weeks ago by boramalper@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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RejZoR@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Fash support fash.
Naich@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Musk will always side with the fascist or the dictator.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
He will always side with profit. If he doesn’t do this Turkey will ban X from the country. Of course these kinds of threats only come from fascists so the correlation is indeed high.
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Ah, so Turkey is who gave Twitter $1bn recently.
NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
turkey moment
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They’re also giving us eggs. Hmm
stickly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Someone needs to an anti-xwitter platform. You’re only allowed to tweet if you prove you’ve been banned on X.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Call it Y
huppakee@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
No matter how much I dislike Musk, I don’t think he’s giving that much choice. Erdogan is a dictator who has the power to block X altogether. A real free speech advocate would not succcumb to the pressure of a repressive government, but the article does imply Musk is not the initiator of these bans: “Musk himself said that “the choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets.” He said X would publicly post the Turkish government’s requests.”
Not saying we shouldn’t put Tesla’s on fire tho.
dojan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah so the solution there is to not just bow down to a dictator. If they want to block Twitter altogether, let them. Let’s not pretend that Musk isn’t willingly going along with that.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
He only cares about laws when he wants to. He literally controls the internet over their head with Starlink. He could have uncensored Twitter on there and FYIWDWYTM. He isn’t powerless. He is, once again, selectively deciding who gets free speech.
everton137@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But when it came to following the orders of the Brazilian Supreme Court to provide information about far-right criminals, he defied the country and had X banned for a few weeks on the whole country.
There is a clear bias when it comes to who X bans, which always favors governments with authoritarian tendencies.
MITM0@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
wosat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I get that it’s trendy to bash Elon, but he has always said that X would attempt to follow local laws:
By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
He has pushed back on countries who attempt to push their censorship dictates on the world – hence, why many of the account suspensions are only in effect within Turkey:
Some accounts appear to be suspended only in Turkey and not in the rest of the world.
Larger question: Why is Elon/X getting more flak than the authoritarian douchebag – Erdoğan – and his cronies in the judiciary who are censoring and jailing political opponents?
deathbird@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
I don’t like the either/or, but I think Elon is an easier target in the Anglosphere. But the US government, of which Elon is a part, has been enabling authoritarian douchebags, and even if this act is consistent with the company’s pragmatic compliance choices, it also aligns with the US administration’s general tendency. And Elon has in other cases shown that his commitment to free speech is pretty weak if it’s speech that he doesn’t like.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Like he did in Brazil, right?
Zacpod@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
People still use Shitter?
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
i mean he did it the last time their were elections in turkey too…
Nednarb44@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As long as he keeps saying he’s a free speech absolutist, we have to believe him… Right?
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
He seems to be very much in favor of his own speech being completely free of any relation to reality.
gjoel@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Elon should be allowed to say whatever he wants without anyone contradicting or fact checking him. His power to be free to say whatever he wants should be absolute!
Nednarb44@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Right, and speech free from criticism obviously
deathbird@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
I mean, he’s free to say it, but we’re free to call him a liar until he uses his immense resources to shut us up like he always does.