Turkey arrests 400+ people over Covid-19 Social Media Posts...........

[3fan4life]

ANKARA – Turkey has detained 402 people in the past 42 days for allegedly sharing “false and provocative” social media postings concerning the coronavirus outbreak, officials said Monday.

An Interior Ministry statement said officials have inspected more than 6,000 social media accounts and the 402 suspects were among a total of 855 account-holders sought by authorities for sharing posts deemed to be “provocative.”


A ministry official said the social media users were detained for allegedly attempting to “cause panic” over the coronavirus pandemic with posts that, among other things, accuse the government of not doing enough to curb the outbreak or of lying about the numbers of deaths or infections.

https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2020/04/27/turk-evacuated-from-sweden-for-coronavirus-treatment/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wsls10&fbclid=IwAR1SlVW056KG0ba-rz3Fxfdf97GHgF6-ZqJbo6RTEgZnXx_A9gXnMBcOXug


Apparently Free Speech doesn't exist in Turkey.

It's a good thing that we have it here (for now at least).

[Bighead]

Well we only have it to a certain extent. As long as it doesn’t offend or other such BS

[GiG]

Maybe Turkey should come arrest 42 people on this board for posting false and provocative claims.
Carl could use the day oft to ride with no windscreen and get wind in his hair 

[Willow]

Maybe Turkey should come arrest 42 people on this board for posting false and provocative claims.
Carl could use the day oft to ride with no windscreen and get wind in his hair 

 

[Jess from VA]

Erdogan and his tribe have been wacky for some time.

They really didn't care for the coup attempt, and things really went downhill after that.