Musk has sided with Turkey’s autocratic leader Recep Erdogan and restricted any TwitterX accounts calling for protests over the arrest of Erdogan’s political rival and Presidential hopeful Ekrem Imagoglu.
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Hmm. The champion of free speech is censoring? After complaining about the previous administration doing the same and releasing the so called Twitter files. Each day, something new and horrible comes along with him.
I emailed the organizers to see if they can open up the location options. I know Te$la takedown is global but that’s a different organizer. Hopefully, they listen and can get that done.
Me too. I’m there if it happens in London. And I’m absolutely going to volunteer. I don’t want to be distracted by Tesla takedown. It’s P2025 that is far more dangerous. Globally.
Ive said this before many times, but the sentiment remains. We have never needed James Bond to be a real figure more than we do now. His hit list would be pages long. Musk would be the first into his own shark tank.
If they are all on the autocracy gravy train, it seems Europe is a good place. Feels like a desperate race to the bottom. Morals and values are long gone.
Ok #cdnpoli - this is what we have to look forward to!! #DitchX and let’s try to secure our internet so it doesn’t pass through the United States of Fascism please….🙏
What’s happening in Turkey is going to be a big story in the coming weeks - NATO member, regional power, ally against Russia, EU aspirant, leader about to go full dictator. Will need to pay attention.
I hope the EU aspirant is postponed, at least as long as Erdoğan is in charge. Te EU should seriously think about making democracy mandatory to be a member. And I don't count "illiberal democracies" as I don't believe there is such a thing. One Hungary is enough...
Erdogan is currently throttling the internet in Turkey to prevent opposition building. In some areas it’s so bad that point of sale credit card readers can’t be used.
Erdogan is doing everything he can to prevent the CHP, the Republican People’s Party, from nominating Imamoglu as the presidential candidate on the 23rd (because he’d likely defeat Erdogan). He’s just tried to appoint a trustee to oversee the party.
'“I have a little conflict of interest because I have a major, major building in Istanbul,” Trump said in 2015. “It’s a tremendously successful job. It’s called Trump Towers — two towers, instead of one, not the usual one, it’s two,” Trump said in an interview.'
Looks to me like it's getting to the time where social media platforms are either band or treated as publishers, at least in jurisdictions that care about free speech, and free and fair elections.
We need some kind of global movement against oligarchs. Billionaires shouldn't exist. How could we make that happen on a global scale? You make a billion dollars? Every dollar after that goes to some global fund or your country of origins taxes. It's clearly just SO dangerous to have billionaires.
Is this the same Musk & administration that has so frequently criticised the UK for legal action against people who promoted racist violence via social media surrounding murders in Southport, incorrectly attributed to a non-existent Islamic asylum seeker through misinformation, amplified by… Musk?🤔
I feel like the world is being chocked by male dictators at the moment. You can feel us gasping for breath and trying to find a way to punch through them. It's the most politically desperate I've felt in my 67 years.
Yes and I feel desperately responsible for your generation. I feel like we took our eyes away and really got complacent and suddenly inequality was a huge chasm dividing us all.
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JOIN THE PROTEST SATURDAY, APRIL 5. Click the link and find a protest near you or organize one.
EU, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!
How I wish these impotent old men would just wither away.
https://bsky.app/profile/hasturkeyjoined.bsky.social/post/3lksf4apsw224
Tell the classical #liberals!
(Bari Weiss, @nelliebowles.bsky.social et al.)
When #X suspended my @SangBina account, many users reached out to tell me of their own and others' "suspensions."
Turkey and USA has a lot on common when it comes to their current leadership.
What an utter asshole POS!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/donald-trump-s-longtime-business-connections-turkey-back-spotlight-n1064011
Actually openly interfering.
JOIN THE PROTEST SATURDAY, APRIL 5. Click the link and find a protest near you or organize one.
It didn't die
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/763758/
It's so on brand to side with dictators.
Have the Turks started using bluesky?
Now is the time to reset and boycott most American stuff. We can do better.
It's one hell of a creepy line up of massive egos and power play. They'd sell their souls for power annd not one of them can trust the other.
What a grubby playground.