⚡️🚨 NEW - According to Politico, Elon Musk is now suspending accounts of opposition figures in Turkey for reporting on the massive protests against Erdoğan’s autocratic regime following the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor.
Musk, self-proclaimed protector of freedom of expression, declared that he had acquired X to restore freedom of expression on the platform. What do you think? #asknostr
This has always been Twitter's policy, right? They comply with the local laws.
And what law is there in Turkey, that opponents have to be blocked from social media? (maby you are also just sarcastic.?)
Not being sarcastic, just making a guess. I know nothing about Turkey's legal system.
Thanks for clarification. But in any authoritarian regime, there is a legal system and seperated from that there is what police accepts.
So when Elon Musk would legitimate these blocks with regard to the law, there needs to be a law in place to base it on.
I think following the law is standing with the people in a democracy. But whatever police, that is acting independent from these laws, are no friend of the people. Then they are the enemy.
Opposition is charged for cooperation with terrorists. So...
But someone would need to be convicted on a personal level, that freedom can be taken. To my knowledge none of the blocked users are convicted.
i don't know many details either. But ss far as i know it is not the first time something like that happens in Turkyie.
It is the decision of Elon Musk, blocking people and their post on twitter. It is not happening in turkey. It is happening in the USA.
ah you were talking about twitter x. Yes of course. There is no chance to expect freedom of spech with such platforms like twitter x and guys like Elon Musk.
Yes. Since I am not commenting the obvious, that Erdogan is acting totally illegitimate to defend his power.
But to argue once again, that Elon Musk is just saying things without responsibility for what he says. He just tells what people want to hear. Same with DOGE, X, Tela, SpaceX, Grok. Elon Musk is a simple advertiser without innovating anything.
I just need to say this, since too many uncritical people still see him as an innovator, on which there is no prove. Or not that I have seen it yet.
Free speech abso... What?
Erdogan is a dictator that has his own citizens disappeared and never heard from again.
He is also the reason that Turkey is supporting ISIS against Kurdish groups in Syria.
Also Turkey and Israel have been working together to help exterminate Christians from Syria, and Turkey has been supplying Israel with oil to make up for the Houthis blockade that is preventing gulf Arab states from supplying oil.
The Turkish regime are genocidal maniacs exactly the same as the Zionists.
Neo ottoman imperialism is just Turkish Zionism
It was always a lie. He’s silent about Chinese censorship as well for the obvious reasons.
Chinese censorship? You mean blocking certain multinational corporations from brainwashing their citizens to create division and internal conflict?
Because I've found Chinese social media is actually less censored than twitter or Facebook, there are a number of topics you just don't talk about, nobody cares if you're trans etc. they don't want to know.
Some political topics are off limits, for or against both sides of those political topics get the same level of censorship.
But that also depends which social media platform.
The platforms all practice different degrees of self censorship, but it's usually fair and you know exactly where you stand and why you're being censored.
But ignoring all of that, you'll actually find a lot of anti Chinese propaganda on twitter and the only reason Elon Musk isn't more vocal is because he wants his companies to do business in China.
On Chinese social media their explanation of the difference is "in USA you have freedom of speech but no freedom of choice, in China you have freedom of choice"
He’s a grifter
Elmo is further descending into Ketamin fueled delusions, but at the same could become the Nostr Sales person of the month march.
Just gonna leave this right here
Not a surprise to anyone, USAID is used to fund imperialist projects and pro USA propaganda.
The fact that they aren't worshipping a zionist like Elon who hates USA does not prove they aren't loyal to USA imperialism like you're trying to suggest
I think that is censorship and that’s not what he is preaching about on his platform. It is double standard .
Musk banned me for ratio-ing him with a funny image on Christmas Day 2024, when he was demanding infinite Indian immigration and telling Americans we're too stupid to run tech companies (which we built) and that we all need to go "F*** ourselves in the face" of we had a problem with being replaced.
I was a Premium X account since he launched it, and had been a Twitter user for 8 years. I used his own AI to generate an image of an Indian guy in a MAGA hat with a funny caption and got a few thousand likes underneath his comment. That was my crime which broke no rules except annoy him personally, and like a tyrant or schoolyard bully he banned me. He's such a lying and deceptive snake, I hate him.
I recently got back on Nostr to see how it's been faring, Gab seems like where everyone went who aren't allowed on X though. Nostr is definitely not easy to get started with, let alone have a profile picture of banner image, or setting up a Lightning wallet, even with Alby. Takes awhile and is an onboarding nightmare, even compared to how it used to be when you could use custodied providers.
Nostr still seems like it's finding it's footing outside of being a bitcoin-community niche but I have high hopes for it. I remember being censored on here by the Relays though awhile back, is that a concern for Nostriches in the future?
Elon Musk does same claiming to be pro free speech but simultaneously doing stuff like this:
