Netizen Report: Turkish Leaders Disagree on Social Media Blocking
Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world. This week's report begins in Turkey, where last week Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to block major social media sites, assuming that he is re-elected later this month. Erdoğan has been humiliated with recording after recording surfacing on the Internet and implicating him in a vast corruption scandal involving media intimidation, among other things.
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