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X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkey political opposition (abcnews.go.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dwazou@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I can't say I'm surprised...

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)
  1. How is censoring a politician "standing up for free speech"?
  2. "full of shit" = not a "free speech absolutist". "free speech absolutist" implies that you will not censor any speech no matter what.
[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You don’t seem to understand how the legal system and governments work.

They issued a legal request to censor his account in Turkey. Failure to do so would result in severe consequences for X, such as having to take X offline for all of Turkey.

X complied with the law and are challenging the censorship request in court, the only place that has the power to overrule the government.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

You don’t seem to understand how the legal system and governments work.

I am not a lawyer but I do understand how jurisdictions work. Elon is not in theirs.

Failure to do so would result in severe consequences for X, such as having to take X offline for all of Turkey.

If he were a "free speech absolutist" as he claims, he would let them.

You didn't answer my question.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Elon isn’t. X is.

I did answer your question. Last paragraph.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

X is.

No it is not. Twitter is a US company with US servers. If you want to argue that the US is now a territory of Turkey, please cite a source.

I did answer your question.

No you didn't.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

X operates in Turkey by giving Turkish users access to the site. They either follow Turkish law or they don’t serve Turkish residents.

They can of course fight any legal requests by the Turkish government - and oh look! They are!