Turkey’s prime minister wants to wipe out Twitter.
Turkey’s prime minister has warned that he would eradicate Twitter after a number of audio recordings anonymously posted on social media purportedly exposed corruption in his inner circle.
“We will wipe out Twitter. I don’t care what the international community says,” premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an election rally in the western province of Bursa on Thursday.
“They will see the Turkish republic’s strength,” he added, according to the AFP news agency.
Really? Actually, I don’t like Twitter – it is the epitome of the inane, of shallow thinking and byte sized sound-bites as well as being no better than the rampaging and unthinking mob. A pointless and silly medium. But, when it comes to governments and their desires to stifle free speech, I side with the twats every time.
Still, there is only one thing to say to Mr Erdogan and that is summed up in three letters: VPN.
Mr Erdogan was always a closet Islamist:- now becoming more overt every day.
Heh. Their president was still using Twitter after it was closed down, as was pretty much everyone else.
I don’t use it either because, like these iPads, I don’t know what it’s for.