"Twitter refuses to explain censorship of verified journalist accounts in post-coup Turkey"
*Twitter refuses to explain censorship of verified journalist accounts in post-coup Turkey** * Efe Kerem Sozeri — 2016-08-12 07:22 p.m. | Last updated 2016-08-13 05:13 a.m. Twitter has made a name for itself as a champion of free speech around the world. Following the recent coup attempt in Turkey, however, something has changed in the way it approaches censorship, and the company refuses to talk about it. Twitter’s policy toward Turkey—limited “censoring to avoid a ban”—puts the company between a rock and a hard place: If Twitter does not comply with Turkey’s ever-increasing censorship requests to silence dissidents, it may face a nationwide ban that silences everyone. But this bullying has just gained more ground against press freedoms in Turkey with Twitter censoring journalists’ accounts that Turkish government wants banned. […] Continua qui: http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/twitter-censorship-journalists-turkey-coup/
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