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Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by wgjordan on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:19AM (#34710253)
For one nonpartisan quantitative analysis, Freedom House gave Turkey a 32/100 ("not free") score on its 2022 global freedom scale [1].

[1] https://freedomhouse.org/country/turkey/freedom-world/2022

Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by xyzzyz on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @04:01PM (#34715078)
Isn’t freedom house the same one who in 2020 gave top scores to countries that literally arrested people for walking around outside? That forbade people from running their businesses and customers from hiring their services?

All of these restrictions on freedom might have been introduced for good reason according to some people, but they very much have been introduced, and very much restricted freedom, so if those don’t count according to freedom house, I can scarcely consider this “quantitative nonpartisan analysis” to be worth much.