Turkey
Meta exec Nick Clegg makes hypocritical suggestion governments should support the “open internet”
Facebook is hardly known for its support of free speech and open standards.
Turkey is the next country to push biometric payments
A big push for biometric cards and the introduction of more data.
Turkey arrests Kurdish journalists under the guise of “anti-terrorism”
Nine journalists, two media employees, and one citizen.
Turkey to jail people for spreading “misinformation”
New proposed law.
Firefox removes Yandex search, will auto-switch affected users to Google
Support for Russia’s Mail.ru is also pulled.
Turkish journalist is jailed for “insulting” President Erdogan with proverb tweet
Thousands have been arrested for similar “offenses.”
Turkey’s President Erdogan says social media is a threat to democracy, demands more censorship
Calls for a “fake news” ban.
Twitter experiences increase in global government demands for censorship and data on users
Governments want to silence users and collect private data.
