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Turkish Finance Minister Defends Twitter Ban

Posted by samzenpus on from the I'd-do-it-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek has defended his governments ban on Twitter and accused the social networking site of not complying with court orders. Simsek said: 'The Turkish telecommunications watchdog has made a number of statements saying that they have asked Twitter on a number of occasions to remove some content on the back of court orders and Twitter has been refusing to comply. I don’t think any global company, whether it’s a media company, whether it’s an industrial company, it shouldn’t see itself [as being] above the law.'" As a result of the ban, Tor gained over 10,000 new users in Turkey.

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  1. Above the law by fustakrakich · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everybody is above corrupt law.

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    “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”