Turkey
Copyright takedowns on Twitter have more than doubled in the first part of 2019
Copyright takedowns are being used as a censorship tool.
Turkey blocks WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook to crush criticism as it attacks Northern Syria
Some unverified reports said in the meanwhile that the blocking of major social media sites is happening elsewhere in the country, too.
Wikipedia is down, experiencing sustained DDoS attack
A “massive and very” broad DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is hitting the Wikimedia Foundation servers
China accused of keyword-based surveillance of Uighurs
Chinese hacking outfits are accused of breaking into telecommunications companies in Malaysia, Thailand, India, Kazakhstan, and Turkey
Twitter is complying with Turkish government censorship requests
Turkish courts are invoking Twitter’s Country Withheld Content (CWC) tool to block accounts.
Wikipedia takes Turkey to Human Rights court over its ban of the website
Wikipedia has been banned in Turkey for two years.
Turkey is the latest country to fine Facebook for data privacy breaches
Turkey fines Facebook $270,000.