⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show online platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in #Turkey on multiple networks; the incident comes as main opposition party CHP calls for rallies after police blockade its Istanbul headquarters

  • gezginorman@lemmy.ml
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    it’s due to the government trying to arrest and/or impress the main opposition. it’s just arbitrary

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      Imagine if a people actually chose to ban those websites tho. I would start my journey to become a Turk. (♫ ff7 turks theme and snaps ♫) Unfortunately, Erdoğan.

      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Imagine if a people actually chose to create and enforce rules to reign in these corpo owned services.

        Banning shit is the opposite of what works.

        Now if you wanna do this without a ban or rules you just gotta let them do it to themselves with ads. All platforms are seeing large declines and it seems to coincide with increases in ads

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          oh yeah most definitely and I agree. My real serious positions are :

          • Tax billionaires
          • let’s create more common services for shit everybody needs (housing, food, insurance, etc)
          • start setting up universal basic income for the rest

          My previous comment was more of a way to commiserate about those services than offering the advice that This Is The Way.