[archivator]

It's either that or Twitter will be completely blocked in Turkey. They're playing a tough game but at least it's a game that the Turkish public can play too, as long as you're faster than the censors.

The alternative is for the government to take down the entire game field.

[fsniper]

They have blocked twitter before, Youtube is even blocked right now. But knowing twitter is starting to bow Turkish government’s requests is not assuring anyone.

It's blocking accounts right now. But what may come afterwards is really worrisome. Also Starting with Turkish government will mean other governments will start the same tactics against Twitter.

So any non-Turkish citizen should fear about what is about to come.

[afsina]

Or, they just did the expected. Those accounts were unlawful and there were court orders against them. You or I may disagree with it does not matter.

[stfu]

The question is at what point a service has to accept local laws. Like when a country bans "sexual images" or certain pictures of "prophets" or criticism of its political leaders, does Twitter, or for that matter any other service - esp. Google, has to bow to that law.

[Karunamon]

I'd imagine at the point that the options become "comply with the law" or "deny access to that locality".

[fsniper]

Like any whistle-blowing.It's illegal so no one should whistle-blow and any corruption should stay hidden.

[dobbsbob]

These accounts will just switch to Russian social media or blogs.mail.ru which have Turkish language support and would be happy to host corruption docs of the Erdogan regime. Then use twitter to spread links to it.

Nothing twitter can do if thousands of Turkish twitter users are linking to pastebin entries and other moving targets hosting links where to get these docs.

[fsniper]

We have seen haramzadeler switch accounts from @haramzadereler1 to @haramzadeler333 and many numbers in between beforehand. So they will just switch accounts hence it's a matter of time before twitter bows and creates a special api for AKP government just to deny any account they want.

[mrtksn]

funny, pastebin is blocked in Turkey. The censorship is not conservative in turkey

[afsina]

For Twitter, they preferred complying with the law. If there would not be large interest groups on this event and only known individuals would be acting, I would symphatise. But sorry IMHO this case is too dodgy to call "whistle blowing".

[fsniper]

Really? So in your opinion letting people learn about prime ministry level corruption and ministry level threats of starting war with Syria is not whistle blowing?

I think you also believe the recordings are montages.

[afsina]

I do not take sides on this. I just felt both sides are master manipulators and I prefer to ignore both.

[higherpurpose]

Court has declared they can't block Twitter, so it was unblocked.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/world/middleeast/turkey-tw...

This was not an issue. Anyway, after Twitter's former lawyer, the one who was fighting for civil rights issue suddenly left, I knew it's all downhill from there for Twitter in terms of fighting for civil rights of their users.

Can't wait for Twister to be mature enough.

http://twister.net.co/