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X has blocked access to accounts run by student groups from top Turkish universities at the request of the Turkish government amid nationwide protests over the detention of the mayor of İstanbul and the cancelation of his university degree, the Diken news website reported on Friday.

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[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 56 points 2 weeks ago

Free Speech Absolutist^TM^

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Well it's not free speech if it is not nazi propaganda.

[-] DioEgizio@lemm.ee 42 points 1 week ago

Free speech absolutism in action

[-] singletona@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Compare arab spring where Egypt shut down its internet and Twitter did everything it could to ensure messages got through...

To bowing down to authoritarian bullshit and locking down dissenting and potentially dissenting accounts.

You know, from the free speech absolutist.

[-] Osan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah some time ago I used to respect these companies I remember when Google condemned the Egyptian government's actions in 2011 and one of the very popular activists in the revolution was the head of marketing in Google MENA. But now the truth has never been more obvious to me. Individuals may or may not care but corporations will never care.

[-] PixelatedCleric@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

It's because of stuff like this that we need to shamelessly promote the Fediverse.

[-] Sibshops@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

This is why people need to move to the fediverse. To stop the government from shutting down people's accounts.

[-] Nanook@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Preaching to the choir my fellow lemming

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

no listen, the fediverse is good! you should try the fediverse!!

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

But have you considered the fediverse?

Also, we're neglecting to mention the fediverse as well as the fediverse

[-] Sibshops@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I hear lemmy is pretty good

[-] Civil_Liberty@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago
[-] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Greatest Free Speech Absolutist!

*But only for Nazi garbage.

[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

WhyTF is anyone still on X?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

There are no other alternatives, don't you see? Not a single one. 😢

[-] NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile Fediverse:

[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Heil Trump. I wish him that he gets what he deserves.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Wasn't it one of Musk's stated reasons for buying twitter to prevent exactly this?

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Yup. When a right-wing government asks, he complies. When a left-wing government does, he sues.

[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

To be fair the only reason he actually went through with buying Twitter was because he was forced to.

[-] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
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