Re: [liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation".
In Turkey, in order to have an Internet-enabled phone, one must provide citizen ID. So, it's not that complicated to identify people after all... My 2 cents, 2013/6/5 micah > michael gurstein writes: > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 > > > > > > > > Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had > > arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation". > > > > > > > > An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali > Engin, > > told Anatolia they were being held for "calling on people to protest". > > > > > > > > Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Twitter was a > > "menace" being used to spread "lies". > > It is frightening to hear about arrests in turkey because of > twitter. How were they identified? > > More importantly, the announcement comes from the state-run news. One > should take any state-run news with a grain of salt. Perhaps this was > done to scare people away from using social media. If that is the real > truth, then the state-run media is the one spreading "misinformation", > which would be ironic which perhaps belies the truth. > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- "Change l'ordre du monde plutôt que tes désirs." -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation".
michael gurstein writes: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 > > > > Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had > arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation". > > > > An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali Engin, > told Anatolia they were being held for "calling on people to protest". > > > > Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Twitter was a > "menace" being used to spread "lies". It is frightening to hear about arrests in turkey because of twitter. How were they identified? More importantly, the announcement comes from the state-run news. One should take any state-run news with a grain of salt. Perhaps this was done to scare people away from using social media. If that is the real truth, then the state-run media is the one spreading "misinformation", which would be ironic which perhaps belies the truth. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation". An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali Engin, told Anatolia they were being held for "calling on people to protest". Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Twitter was a "menace" being used to spread "lies". -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
