A report delivered by the Turkish freedom of expression campaign group presents the country’s complex internet censorship mechanism. It explains that Internet and social media censorship has increased over the past 15 years in Turkey, with authorities’ restraints of approximately 60,000 websites throughout the last year. The report asserts that more than 467,000 websites have been banned in Turkey since 2006, with 58,809 bans in 2020. Since 2006, the Turkish authorities have also restrained access to 150,000 URLs, 7,500 Twitter accounts, 12,000 YouTube videos, 8,000 Facebook posts, and 6,800 Instagram posts. The report also addresses the government measures to curb the coronavirus pandemic to increase censorship. Moreover, after the digital rights law was adopted in 2020, a total of 75,292 social media accounts were investigated, and legal action was taken against 32,000 of them. Read more here.
Source: Balkan Insight