• Ulrich@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 day ago
      1. How is censoring a politician “standing up for free speech”?
      2. “full oh shit” = not a “free speech absolutist”. “free speech absolutist” implies that you will not censor any speech no matter what.
      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        21 hours ago

        You don’t seem to understand how the legal system and governments work.

        They issued a legal request to censor his account in Turkey. Failure to do so would result in severe consequences for X, such as having to take X offline for all of Turkey.

        X complied with the law and are challenging the censorship request in court, the only place that has the power to overrule the government.

        • Ulrich@feddit.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          edit-2
          21 hours ago

          You don’t seem to understand how the legal system and governments work.

          I am not a lawyer but I do understand how jurisdictions work. Elon is not in theirs.

          Failure to do so would result in severe consequences for X, such as having to take X offline for all of Turkey.

          If he were a “free speech absolutist” as he claims, he would let them.

          You didn’t answer my question.

            • Ulrich@feddit.org
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              20 hours ago

              X is.

              No it is not. Twitter is a US company with US servers. If you want to argue that the US is now a territory of Turkey, please cite a source.

              I did answer your question.

              No you didn’t.

              • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                edit-2
                20 hours ago

                X operates in Turkey by giving Turkish users access to the site. They either follow Turkish law or they don’t serve Turkish residents.

                They can of course fight any legal requests by the Turkish government - and oh look! They are!

      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        Am I missing something?

        Yes. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you might have taken the quoted text and the link as being the same thing, when they are 2 separate things.

        The X link is a post from X Global Government Affairs regarding this Turkey censorship situation. Some of the text from it:

        X received an order to restrict access in Türkiye to the account of the now-detained Mayor of Istanbul. While we have followed Türkiye’s order regarding the account, we strongly disagree with the order and are challenging the order in court. In the spirit of full transparency, we are sharing the court order and our legal filing below.