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Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by Kukumber on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:02AM (#34709945)
They are in charge of the disinformation/moderation teams

An example: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarondberman/

They are in most social media companies

So they can decide what to ban that could hinder their national social order

Something Turkey can't do with Twitter, hence a ban, just like the US with TikTok and the pseudo "algorithm"

With the amount of misinformation that spreads in Twitter, it is the right thing to do

It was similar with Iran, and that coincides with Musk purchasing Twitter and dismantling the moderation team making it unable to function at all

https://news.yahoo.com/twitters-content-moderation-team-repo...

Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by LarryMullins on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:46PM (#34712754)
> it is the right thing to do

You had me nodding until this part. Yes, twitter is filled with misinformation. But government censorship is more dangerous than misinformation. Governments have killed more people than anything else short of heart attacks and cancer. Governments murdered hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century; giving governments the power to censor whatever the government deems to be misinformation is insanely dangerous. The most dangerous kind of misinformation is that which is promulgated by the government itself.

Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by chopin on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @03:11PM (#34714199)
Any government, to emphasize. Who gets to decide what constitutes misinformation?
Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by Kukumber on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:07PM (#34716946)
It's one of the mission of the CIA, spread propaganda, use influence to manipulate the press and journalists all over the world etc, back during the cold war

Using social media to achieve this mission is the natural evolution, as peoples usage to get information changes over time

It's very well documented, so seeing them at key roles isn't a surprise, and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone

They can't do it with TikTok, the app of choice of the youth and people all over the world

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/John_R._Stockwell

https://twitter.com/MichaelNo2War/status/1589793529823645696