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Re:Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than tw... by Twixes on Sunday January 26, 2020 @10:45PM (#22156726)
Turkish authorities don't have global tech giants to tap into, but worry not, they're monitoring the internet very closely. In fact, they arrest people over tweets criticizing their rule. [0] And of course they block Wikipedia country–wide, over what Donald Trump would call "fake news" (as he does with news outlets revealing embarrassing facts about him or his administration). Not an example to be followed by any government on Earth.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/27/turkey-crackdown-social-...

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Re:Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than tw... by remcob on Monday January 27, 2020 @01:01AM (#22157155)
I think grandparent was not about having surveillance programs or not, but about whether the government is being held accountable to it's own laws. A quality that is worryingly slipping in several nations. Hence the emphasis on 'illegal' and the shoddy investigation with little follow-up.
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