Människorättsgruppen Human Rights Watch skriver om det turkiska embargot mot Instagram.
HRW (Türkiye: Restore Access to Instagram):
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Det sista är en intressant sentens att ha i åtanke när man pratar om innehållet på andra sociala medier, som Twitter och Flashback.
The Turkish authorities’ arbitrary decision on August 2, 2024, to impose a blanket block on access to Instagram violates the rights to freedom of expression and of access to information for millions of users, Human Rights Watch and the Freedom of Expression Association (İfade Özgürlüğü Derneği, İFÖD) said today. The block also interferes with small business owners in Türkiye who depend on the platform for their work.
Türkiye’s government-controlled internet regulator, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu, BTK), has not published the decision laying out the grounds for blocking access to Instagram. However the move came two days after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s communications director accused Instagram’s parent company, Meta, of removing condolence messages relating to the former head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran on July 31.
“Blocking everyone’s access to an entire social media platform is a grossly disproportionate measure that violates the right to free expression and information of millions of users of the platform in Türkiye and should be reversed immediately,” said Deborah Brown, technology and rights deputy director at Human Rights Watch. “A government’s disagreement over certain decisions either to take down or to permit certain content on a platform should never be used as a pretext to block access to the platform in its entirety.”
Türkiye’s government-controlled internet regulator, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu, BTK), has not published the decision laying out the grounds for blocking access to Instagram. However the move came two days after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s communications director accused Instagram’s parent company, Meta, of removing condolence messages relating to the former head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran on July 31.
“Blocking everyone’s access to an entire social media platform is a grossly disproportionate measure that violates the right to free expression and information of millions of users of the platform in Türkiye and should be reversed immediately,” said Deborah Brown, technology and rights deputy director at Human Rights Watch. “A government’s disagreement over certain decisions either to take down or to permit certain content on a platform should never be used as a pretext to block access to the platform in its entirety.”
Men det var inte det som efterfrågades.
