Turkey vs Social Networks

Turkey's Government lost their mind

During March,2014 Turkeys government got allowed to shutdown any social network or website whenever they want to. The Turkey government announced the first websites they want to banned. These websites are on the most popular ones in the internet. The first one is twitter. This is a social network service that permit users to send and read 140 character messages. The Turkish people are upset of this decision, basically the government is taking away a form to express themselves. The other website is youtube. Youtube is a video sharing website on which users can view and share videos. As Erdogan’s opponents say" his online clampdown is just a cynical, short term political move and a response to a growing story about government corruption. But Turks have refused to let the ban stop them from getting onto the micro-blogging site." This quote shows that the Turks are upset with the governments decision and they will continue entering to this website in anyway.

In my opinion the decision that took the Turkish government was a bad decision. I think that there is no democracy when prohibiting the access to certain websites. And as long as I know Turkey is a democratic country. I think that the next victim is Facebook. The way that it's going Turkey will have the same law that China has with Facebook. It is banned in china. This "social network" conflict leave me with two main questions:

 - Is really Turkey a democratic country?

- Do freedom of speech exist in Turkey?

Article taken from: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2014/03/turkey-vs-twitter-201432912262501221.html