Wikipedia Founder Crushes Elon Musk for Caving to Twitter Censorship in Turkey: ‘Treat Freedom of Expression as a Principle Rather Than a Slogan’
thewrap.comhttps://t.co/tHkx1Wa06rIt’s true. Wikipedia was banned for more than two years in Turkey due to article entries that accused the country of being linked to terrorist organizations.
The Wikipedia Foundation challenged the ban in Turkey’s Constitutional Court, and after a drawn-out process, the ban was lifted in 2019, with the court ruling a block on the online encyclopedia was a violation of freedom of expression, per Reuters.
Wales is now arguing that Musk does not share the same values that Wikipedia does. Twitter’s Global Government Affairs account initially stated it blocked access of some content in Turkey “in accordance with the court decisions regarding the blocking of access to Twitter,” according to a Google’s translation of the tweet in Turkish.
Twitter’a iletilen erişim engellenmesine yönelik mahkeme kararları uyarınca ve Twitter'ın Türkiye’de kullanıma açık kalmasını sağlamak amacıyla, Türkiye'de bazı içeriklerin erişimine engelleme getirdik.Current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power in the country for 20 years, has completely blocked Twitter before.
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