Culture Turkey blocks instant messaging platform Discord

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ISTANBUL, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Discord following a court decision, the country's infotech regulator said on Wednesday.
Turkey's Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) published the access ban decision on its website.
Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said a court in the capital Ankara decided to remove access from Turkey to San Francisco-based Discord due to sufficient suspicion that the crimes of "child sexual abuse and obscenity" have been committed.

"We are determined to protect our youth and children, from the harmful publications of social media and the internet that constitute crimes. We will never allow attempts to shake the foundations of our social structure," Tunc also said in a post on X.
The access ban decision comes after public outrage caused by the murder of two women, perpetrated by a 19-year-old man earlier this month.
Following the incident, content on social media showed some users of Discord were praising the killing which led to public outrage against certain communities on the platform.

On Tuesday, Russia's communications regulator blocked Discord for violating Russian law, after previously fining the company for failing to remove banned content, the TASS news agency reported.

 

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Holy based. Discord is fucking cancer. Group chats have ALWAYS been a waste of time and a colossocal grift-show. Who can demand the most attention and power to kick out whoever may challenge them? Whoever posts the most memes and.. that's it usually.
>Log on; set to invisible
>Read through 10 Discords instead of saying hi to a friend
>copy paste memes between 3 servers, still set to invisible
>5 hours pass
>Oh yeah this felt so good

 

[frozen_runner]

Hope more countries continue to do the same.

Why? It won't just be Discord. It will be any platform that allows people to talk with jannies moderating everything.

Some of this push against unmoderated speech is coordinated. Some of it is just governments around the globe taking the opportunity to be more authoritarian. None of this is good.

 

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Can @NvII iS 8ulLt f0R 88C be reached for comment?

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wtf something ever happened

 

[AnOminous]

Oh no, how terrible, no more Turks on Discord. How will that program ever recover?

When you think about it, as much as authoritarian regimes doing shit like this sucks, it's kind of an IQ filter since it will get rid of the people too dumb to get around it.

 

[Snekposter]

When you think about it, as much as authoritarian regimes doing shit like this sucks, it's kind of an IQ filter since it will get rid of the people too dumb to get around it.

So why hasn't the Great Firewall of China done anything similar for the rest of the world?

 

[X Prime]

Thank God the government is telling people what software they're allowed to use. For their own good, of course.

The problem here is that, say, you can buy a new piece of electronics, go onto the support Discord to ask a question or two, and be suddenly subjected to porn with, shall we say, very youthful-looking individuals that has somehow been up for multiple days.

Discord is an unholy blight.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

The problem here is that, say, you can buy a new piece of electronics, go onto the support Discord to ask a question or two, and be suddenly subjected to porn with, shall we say, very youthful-looking individuals that has somehow been up for multiple days.

Discord is an unholy blight.

Yes, it is.

But that's not for power hungry feds to decide. Now the precedent has been established. ${YourFavoriteSoftware} is next.

 

[ICanLurkNoMore]

So why hasn't the Great Firewall of China done anything similar for the rest of the world?

it has, consider if you will the Pajeet menace and how it has worsened massively with proliferation of internet access in India.

if only India would build themselves a great shitting wall for themselves.

 

[AnOminous]

So why hasn't the Great Firewall of China done anything similar for the rest of the world?

Because the chinks shitting up the Internet are mostly paid by the actual government for their wumao shit.