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Twitter is Censoring Criticism of Turkish President Erdoğan
Read more: Twitter is Censoring Criticism of Turkish President ErdoğanTwitter deletes ‘insulting’ tweets/accounts by critics of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following court order Since 2016, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sued, arrested, and detained thousands of opposition journalists, academics, civil servants, and other critics of his government’s increasingly authoritarian policies. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (source) Online, Erdoğan’s efforts to control his public image have been equally…
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Erdoğan Censorship Demand Links Him to ISIS
Read more: Erdoğan Censorship Demand Links Him to ISISTurkey’s authoritarian president demands U.S. social media giants censor critical posts, tweets, and satirical cartoons linking him to Islamic terrorism. In 2016 and 2017, I blogged about takedown demands sent by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, targeting satirical cartoons and “humiliating” news reports comparing him to Hitler. Turkey’s censorial circus continues with yet another round…
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Stockholmies
Read more: StockholmiesCharity for self-exiled Turkish journalists living in Stockholm cites my blog post re: legal efforts by Turkey’s First Lady to scrub negative news stories about herself from the web Earlier this week I blogged about legal efforts by Turkey’s First Lady Emine Erdoğan to scrub negative news stories about herself from the web. The story has…
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First Lady of Lumen
Read more: First Lady of LumenFirst Lady of Turkey Emine Erdoğan demands takedown of negative news reports That’s according to the Lumen Database, a website that collects and analyses online takedown requests. In April, the site uploaded a Turkish court order complaint Erdoğan sent to Google and WordPress demanding the removal of news reports described as “damaging” to the “personality…
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Arif Gets Streisanded
Read more: Arif Gets StreisandedThe Daily Beast picks up my story about Turkish court-ordered takedown requests by Trump’s Bayrock business partner Tevfik Arif re: his 2010 arrest in prostitution sting source Via “Trump’s Business Partner Tries to Erase his Prostitution Bust From Web” by Lachlan Markay, The Daily Beast, July 21, 2007: A former Russian government official – and…
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Arif Trumps WordPress
Read more: Arif Trumps WordPressWordPress blocks critical blog about Trump’s inner circle after Turkish court order from Trump’s Bayrock business partner Tevfik Arif Earlier this week I blogged about Bayrock Group CEO Tevfik Arif’s attempts to get news reports about his 2010 arrest for human trafficking removed from the Internet. Arif, a former Soviet commerce official, is best known for…
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Bad Day at Bayrock
Read more: Bad Day at BayrockTrump’s Bayrock Group business partner Tevfik Arif demands takedown of news reports that he was arrested and charged with human trafficking According to the Lumen Database, which collects and analyses takedown requests of online content, Arif recently sent Turkish court orders to Google and Automattic (WordPress’ parent company) demanding the removal of a number of…
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Adolf Erdoğan
Read more: Adolf ErdoğanTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan orders takedown of “humiliating” news reports comparing him to Hitler The Turkish tyrant has ordered Google and other search companies to delist over 40 URLs, including a critical report by The Washington Times, plus an AOL image search for “Adolf Erdoğan,” because they allegedly link to “hurtful, humiliating” images and…
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WordPress Yields to Erdoğan
Read more: WordPress Yields to ErdoğanWordPress updates its takedown policy to reflect that it now complies with Turkish censorship demands – four months after I blogged the story Last year, I reported about a Turkish political blog that was geo-blocked by WordPress following a takedown request from tyrannical Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In a series of tweets, the Turkish journalist and noted…
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