[rajivjain]

Terms of service cannot supersede local laws. If Twitter wants to do business in a country, they need to comply. Twitter can choose to give up ad revenue and reach. Turkish government may have bad motive. However, democratic governments around the world can and should regulate social media in their countries per the local laws.

[golondon]

So, all social media companies must have representative in all countries that allow local govs to remove any content? Or get all of their info such as IP address?

Where is the line here? If I live in US and Tweet in Turkish, if Turkish gov ask for removal of that content should it be removed? Or should companies be required to share information about this user?

If I write that in another language, that local gov don't like, does it give Turkish gov right to get that removed?

[xg15]

> So, all social media companies must have representative in all countries that allow local govs to remove any content? Or get all of their info such as IP address?

Maybe. How a global communication network should interact with local laws and customs is in many aspects still an open problem that we just have begun to tackle.

> If I live in US and Tweet in Turkish, if Turkish gov ask for removal of that content should it be removed? Or should companies be required to share information about this user?

Welcome in a globalized world. I hope this won't be the eventual outcome, but this is definitly not a trivial question to answer. This stuff is why we have international organisations like the UN etc.

[mrtksn]

For Turkey, the limit is 1M daily users from Turkey.

If you are beyond this limit, you are required to have a representative or the bandwidth limitations are applied and fines start to accumulate. If you don’t intend to do business in Turkey, you just go on with your business and loose that market.

Oh, btw, it’s likely that they will request global content removal. If I recall correctly Youtube or Wikipedia was blocked for years because of this.

[rtx]

That's how it works in most other trades. They can go to WTO if they find it against its policies.

[throwawy2021]

what if I live in Gaza and tweet in english badmouth about jews?

won't twitter censor my tweets for hate speech,?

github and gitlab are US companies and censored projects only for the owner being iranian