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Social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey
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⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show online platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in #Turkey on multiple networks; the incident comes as main opposition party CHP calls for rallies after police blockade its Istanbul headquarters
it's due to the government trying to arrest and/or impress the main opposition. it's just arbitrary
Imagine if a people actually chose to ban those websites tho. I would start my journey to become a Turk. (♫ ff7 turks theme and snaps ♫) Unfortunately, Erdoğan.
Imagine if a people actually chose to create and enforce rules to reign in these corpo owned services.
Banning shit is the opposite of what works.
Now if you wanna do this without a ban or rules you just gotta let them do it to themselves with ads. All platforms are seeing large declines and it seems to coincide with increases in ads
oh yeah most definitely and I agree. My real serious positions are :
My previous comment was more of a way to commiserate about those services than offering the advice that This Is The Way.
Turkey's main source of renewable power is Atatürk spinning in his grave.