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By Turkish Minute – August 17, 2021 438 0
A total of 349,763 websites were banned in Turkey between 2016 and 2020, according to the 2020 annual report of the Freedom of Expression Association’s (İFÖD) EngelliWeb initiative.
According to a report by the Stockholm Center for Freedom, citing İFÖD’s findings, the number of websites that have been banned since 2006 has reached 467,011, with 58,809 website bans in 2020, a slight decrease over 2019.
see also…this blog ‘TheFreeOnline’ blog banned in Turkey with Dozens more pro Rojava and anti Fascist sites
In addition to websites, access bans were issued for 150,000 URLs (or Internet addresses), 7,500 Twitter accounts, 50,000 tweets, 12,000 YouTube videos and 8,000 Facebook and 6,800 Instagram posts since 2006.
The report is titled “Fahrenheit 5651,” in reference to Fahrenheit 451, the famous dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, and Law no. 5651 — aka the Internet Act — which authorizes various legal and administrative bodies to ban access to websites and request content removal under a variety of circumstances.
The Turkish government increased its pressure on social media platforms after the Gezi protests of May 2013, which began over government plans to build over Gezi Park, one of the few green spaces left in İstanbul. Twitter emerged as alternative media and a networking tool among protestors, while the mainstream media hesitated to broadcast the popular protests at the time.
Since then, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has listed social media as one of the main threats to national security, and the Turkish government has expanded its Internet restrictions to curb the availability of critical news and opinion and penalized users who committed so-called anti-state crimes in the online public sphere.
According to the report a total of 5,645 Internet addresses containing news stories were banned, and content was removed from 4,620 of them in 2020.
Citing data released by the Interior Ministry, the report said a total of 75,292 social media accounts were investigated in 2020 and that legal action was taken against 32,000 of them, marking a significant increase over 2019.
In July 2020 the Turkish parliament passed legislation at Erdoğan’s request, imposing far-reaching restrictions on social media platforms with over 1 million daily visitors in Turkey.
The law, which concerns YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, went into effect at the beginning of October and sets forth progressive sanctions forcing social media platforms with more than 1 million connections a day to appoint a representative in Turkey with whom the Turkish authorities can resolve problems arising from cases of insult, intimidation and violation of privacy.
The bill was criticized by human rights defenders and critics including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders and the UN, who expressed their concerns over the government’s move.
posted on by enough14 — Leave a comment Originally published by Enlace Zapatista.
Only 500 years later. Words of the Zapatista Peoples.
August 13, 2021.
Sisters, brothers, hermanoas:
Compañeros, compañeras, compañeroas:
The Zapatista communities speak through our voices.
First, we would like to express our thanks.
Thank you for having invited us.
Thank you for having welcomed us.
Thank you for having housed us.
Thank you for having fed us.
Thank you for having taken care of us.
But above all, we’d like to express our gratitude for the fact that despite differences and obstacles you have all agreed to what we’re doing today. Perhaps it seems small to you, but for us Zapatista communities it is huge.
Madrid, Spain
“Tell us your story, your rage, your rebellion. We come to listen and learn from your story. In each resistance there is a cry for life. 500 years later, the communities come to listen to you,” was the message from Squadron 421, in the name of the Zapatista support bases of Chiapas, Mexico, in a large rally in the Plaza de Colón, from the capital of the Spanish State, within the framework of the 500 years of the conquest of Tenochtitlán, Aztec territory.
After a march from Puerta del Sol to Plaza Colón, the Zapatistas gave thanks that they have been received, housed, fed, cared for, and especially they added: “that despite their differences were able to agree,” to carry out the march and rally.
“We are Zapatistas, from a geography called Mexico. The government doesn’t recognize de that geography, to the state we are extemporaneous,” the EZLN’s support bases recalled, alluding to the way in which the Mexican government tends to catalog people who are not registered right after being born, but rather due to economic, social, geographic and bureaucratic issues do it after some time.
“But we have not come here to complain,” the Zapatistas clarified, and indicated that Squadron 401 precedes a larger group of Zapatistas (the Zapatista Airborne Company) that will separate into smaller groups and tour the European continent, also baptized by them as Slumil K´Ajxemk´Op. Members of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), the Indigenous Government Council (CIG) and representatives of the Peoples Front in Defense of Land and Water of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala will arrive, along with indigenous peoples.
“We don’t bring any recipe, visions or strategies, we come to listen to you. As Zapatistas we have a cause, a motive, a goal: Life,” the indigenous people who rose up in arms in 1994 expressed.
The message to the struggles that the Zapatistas described as diverse was not to stop, but to be more profound and radical, faced with something that prevents us from living; in other words, capitalism, they said.
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Originally Published in Spanish by Pozol Colectivo
Friday, August 13, 2021
Officials say the 7.2-magnitude quake destroyed or damaged thousands of homes, leaving about 30,000 families homeless.
Note: After the last earthquake a huge corrupt international aid effort stole the donations or used them for more exploitation. If you want to help please check you’re donating via local trusted agencies!
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Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Grace is forcing Haiti’s government to temporarily pause rescue efforts in the aftermath of a deadly weekend earthquake, which has left thousands of people homeless and in need of assistance across the country’s hard-hit southwest.
The pause on Tuesday came after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Saturday morning, killing at least 1,941 people and injuring more than 9,900 others, according to the most recent figures from Haiti’s civil protection agency.
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The Caribbean country, already struggling to cope with COVID-19, widespread gang violence and political instability worsened in the aftermath of President Jovenel Moise’s killing last month, now faces the difficult task of rebuilding, caring for the injured, and providing emergency shelter and supplies for tens of thousands of displaced families.
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Follow RT on A handful of women in the Afghan capital have bravely taken to the streets to demand their rights to education, work, and political participation are protected, amid fears the Taliban will seek to erase the gains of recent years.
On Tuesday, a small group of women in Kabul boldly spoke out in public to demand that the new Taliban regime commit to the maintenance of women’s rights in the war-torn nation.
Kabul-based journalists have shared videos and photos of the women, who stood chanting slogans and holding heartfelt messages written on pieces of paper.
“Work, education, political participation is our right. Don’t erase women. Be the voice of Afghan women,” the women cried, according to journalist Golnaz Esfandiari.
by Kaos en la Red Publicado el 16 Ago, 2021
This Saturday, in Paris, three processions gathered several tens of thousands of protesters (250,000 say the police and 400,000 protesters) against the Covid certificate and Emmanuel Macron, for the fifth Saturday in a row and with the number of protesters rising.
On the one hand, the extreme right and far away from them, two other mobilizations, a self-described “independent” with a strong multicultural presence and slogans such as: “” Let’s free France “,” We have to get rid of Macron “,” Macron, doors “, and the so-called “The Yellow Number” (‘yellow vests’), with left-wing slogans and red flags, which began its march denouncing the “Macronian dictatorship.”
Americans will hate whoever they’re told to—Vietnam, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, China. After a while they don’t even rememberwhythey hate them, they just do. Getting the war machine going is easy, just throw the press a few bones about ‘terrorism’ and soon enough there’s bones in the ground. The New York Times will evenmake terrorism up. CNN will film the bombs raining down. It’s a great, hateful show.
It’s important to understand Afghanistan not as a $2.26 trillion failure of good intentions but a $2.26 trillion success ofbad. This is what America does. This is who Americans are. They have reduced war to its most crass objective, a way to profit from misery. Afghanistan was no mistake. It was a very successful scam.–
The American war on Afghanistan was a$2.26 trillionscam. Somebody pocketed all that money, and it certainly…
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