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53 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/19/middleeast/turkey-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-interview-mime-intl/index.html

 

Erdogan loves Putin and apparently so does Musk.  Continuing to censor opposition on Twitter.

Erdogan also helped secure an exchange of prisoners of war between Ukraine and Russia, in addition to hosting some liberated Ukrainian POWS in Turkey, and providing Kyiv with arms. Still his close ties with Putin have made his Western allies nervous.

 

Didnt read anything about musk in that article. 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:

would have been nice if that article included the actual info as it seems to be a very small amount.

 

"In a tweet, Twitter said four accounts and 409 tweets had been identified by the Turkish government in a court order, which the firm had then blocked. Twitter added that it would "continue to object in court" to it."

 

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31 minutes ago, Chris farley said:

would have been nice if that article included the actual info as it seems to be a very small amount.

 

"In a tweet, Twitter said four accounts and 409 tweets had been identified by the Turkish government in a court order, which the firm had then blocked. Twitter added that it would "continue to object in court" to it."

 

he still has picked a side...

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5 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:

he still has picked a side...

He helped broker a key agreement known as the Black Sea Grain Corridor Initiative that unlocked millions of tons of wheat caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, averting a global hunger crisis. The agreement was extended for another two months on Wednesday, one day before it was set to expire.

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1 hour ago, redtail hawk said:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/19/middleeast/turkey-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-interview-mime-intl/index.html

 

Erdogan loves Putin and apparently so does Musk.  Continuing to censor opposition on Twitter.

Loves Putin so much he donated all those starlink terminals to Ukraine and then had his engineers alter the carriers to evade Russian jamming??? 
 

yeah Putin love 

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7 minutes ago, Chris farley said:

He helped broker a key agreement known as the Black Sea Grain Corridor Initiative that unlocked millions of tons of wheat caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, averting a global hunger crisis. The agreement was extended for another two months on Wednesday, one day before it was set to expire.

and that has absolutely nothing to do with picking a side in the Turkish election...

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2 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:

and that has absolutely nothing to do with picking a side in the Turkish election...

Picking a side? The article you cited said turkey’s government said ‘these tweet are illegal, take them down or we take the whole site down.’ He said alright for now but I’ll see you in court.

 

would should he have done? 

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1 hour ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

Picking a side? The article you cited said turkey’s government said ‘these tweet are illegal, take them down or we take the whole site down.’ He said alright for now but I’ll see you in court.

 

would should he have done? 

hmmmm, let me think...from the BBC article I linked, quoting Wiki CEO:

But Mr Wales said Twitter should have stood its ground.

"We have been blocked in various places around the world at different times, we have never given in to censorship and we never will," he told me on the BBC's tech podcast Tech Life.

"If governments around the world believe that in order to get political advantage they can control what their political opponents are saying online or prevent them from speaking online, then they will try that."

He said Twitter's actions would put pressure on other websites to comply with future demands.

"I think people in the industry should really stand up and vigorously say no - actually an open internet, a free internet, the free sharing of ideas and knowledge is really crucially important," he added.

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1 hour ago, redtail hawk said:

hmmmm, let me think...from the BBC article I linked, quoting Wiki CEO:

But Mr Wales said Twitter should have stood its ground.

"We have been blocked in various places around the world at different times, we have never given in to censorship and we never will," he told me on the BBC's tech podcast Tech Life.

"If governments around the world believe that in order to get political advantage they can control what their political opponents are saying online or prevent them from speaking online, then they will try that."

He said Twitter's actions would put pressure on other websites to comply with future demands.

"I think people in the industry should really stand up and vigorously say no - actually an open internet, a free internet, the free sharing of ideas and knowledge is really crucially important," he added.


I saw the commentary on what the guy who isn’t ceo for Twitter said Twitter should do. 
 

I don’t have a strong opinion because I recognize Musk has been an overarching force for good in the world(I say that as I compete directly against him in a space he’s made a lot harder to compete in) 

 

but you think the best decision was be blocked completely as opposed to comply in interim and challenge in court?

 

The right choice and why isn’t obvious to me

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