Turkey Blocks Wikileaks After It Dumps Nearly 300,000 Turkish Gov't Emails
from the censorship-wars dept
Turkey has a pretty detailed history of banning websites that it doesn’t like, so the news that it’s now blocking Wikileaks hardly comes as a surprise. After all, following the failed coup attempt, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wasted no time in moving forward with what appears to be a somewhat vicious crackdown on tens of thousands of people. So, when Wikileaks suddenly released 300,000 emails from the Turkish government for anyone to search and explore, it’s no surprise that all access to Wikileaks was quickly blocked.
WikiLeaks ordered to be blocked nationwide in #Turkey after releasing 300 thousand emails from #Erdogan's party AKP pic.twitter.com/Q5vWWimklY
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 20, 2016
Of course, it seems at least marginally noteworthy that, just a few months ago, the European Court of Human Rights had ruled that at least one of Turkey’s internet bans, on YouTube, had breached the right to information. Of course, with Erdogan’s activities this week, you get the feeling he doesn’t care much at all what the European Court of Human Rights thinks about his actions right now.
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Comments on “Turkey Blocks Wikileaks After It Dumps Nearly 300,000 Turkish Gov't Emails”
Wait, wait… a European high court talking about censorship laws breaching the fundamental human right to information?
That’s incredibly ironic. I know there’s a good reason to say so, but I must have… forgotten.
Erdogan just doesn’t want people seeing how he increased the size of his penis in just 1 easy coup.
The brutal truth
Of course, with Erdogan’s activities this week, you get the feeling he doesn’t care much at all what the European Court of Human Rights thinks about his actions right now.
And why should he?
If the other governments have been willing to put up with him before now it’s not like he has anything to fear if he’s ‘only’ cracking down on the peons in his own country, especially with the coup attempt to provide cover for his actions(you know, just like how the US, UK and numerous other governments use ‘terrorism’ as justification).
What, are they going to send a sternly worded letter and tell him to stop that or else?
Re: The brutal truth
More likely they will mobilize the media to tell people there’s nothing to see here, move along and be a good citizen. And things will keep running as usual.
Re: The brutal truth
Disney needs to send him a C&D over stealing their IP. In particular, faking a rebellion to propel him from President to Emperor.
He can ignore human rights activists, but Disney’s lawyers are feared by one and all… and rightly so.
Re: Re: The brutal truth
There’s plenty of prior art I am afraid.
Re: Re: Re: The brutal truth
Doesn’t matter to Disney.
Re: The brutal truth
Re: Re: The brutal truth
So a stern public letter telling him to knock it off?
In another news, Erdogan floods court systems around the world with defamation lawsuits against people reporting, sharing or thinking about the things the leaked mails revealed. Swears he isn’t into nazi sadomasochism. Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile approves it.
The Great Purge
Joseph Stalin and his Great Purge of 1936 to 38. Erdogan and his smaller-Great Purge of 2016 till … Done for the same reasons.
Re: The Great Purge
The US great purge of 2017 ?
Re: Re: The Great Purge
Only if the American Taliban win the election.
Re: The Great Purge
Everyone has to learn to walk before they learn to run.
Before we are too harsh on Erdogan . . .
Before we are too harsh on Erdogan, we (the US) needs to wait until after our elections in November.
The respect others have for the US government could suffer if we condemn another government leader, and then have one ourselves who does even worse.
Of course, I don’t now if the level of respect for the government can drop below zero. It might be worth consulting congress about that one. Or Comcast.
Re: Before we are too harsh on Erdogan . . .
I’m not following this logic. No matter how terrible our President may be, that in no way makes other leaders less terrible, or makes it so that we shouldn’t call them out for being terrible.
Re: Re: Before we are too harsh on Erdogan . . .
You’re right, of course. It’s like us torturing doesn’t make torture any less horrible. But it does remove our ability to credibly call it out as horrible when we are doing it ourselves.
Same with:
* patents in East Texas
* government corruption
* police brutality
etc
Re: Re: Re: Before we are too harsh on Erdogan . . .
“But it does remove our ability to credibly call it out as horrible when we are doing it ourselves.”
Only if we’re failing to call out the US as well.
wHAT RIGHTS
What Right do the citizens have to KNOW what is happening in their OWN nation??
Especially when All the people around the WORLD know..