Let’s not pretend this is a platform that’s seriously concerned about prioritizing “free speech.”
, and from what he told the Turkish Minute, it appears Erdogan’s government has tried to throttle his reach any way that it can: “It was made impossible to find my videos when people searched for them on YouTube in Turkey. Now comes the Twitter decision. Facebook has already been blocking my videos for the past two years.
”From what Twitter Global Government Affairs tweeted, it would appear that the Turkish government, whose head of state was preparing for a tough reelection, ordered that Twitter obscure accounts such as Yakut’s and Güven’s or lose the ability to operate within the country altogether—not a small issue for the platform, considering
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