With the social media law, all popular social media applications were required to appoint representatives to Turkey. Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) imposed a 3-month advertising ban on Twitter, which could not appoint a representative. Despite this, Twitter has not yet appointed a representative in Turkey. Everyone is wondering whether band narrowing, which is the second stage of sanctions, will be implemented in Turkey. The expected announcement has arrived. Here are the details…
There will be no tape ban for Twitter, which has reached the second stage of sanctions!
Last July, BTK imposed an advertising ban on the popular social media application Twitter. In this way, Twitter could not generate revenue from the Turkish market. According to the decision taken on July 21, if a representative was not appointed within three months, Twitter’s bandwidth would be reduced. This band throttling practice almost means an access barrier. As the time period granted by BTK to Twitter was about to expire, all eyes turned to BTK.
So what happens if band narrowing is applied? If this sanction is imposed, accessing Twitter from Turkey will be quite difficult. Nowadays, people can access information quickly thanks to social media channels. They can share their feelings of unity and solidarity through these channels and create public opinion. We observed the most vivid examples of this in the February 6 earthquake, which deeply affected our country.
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Although Twitter has received an advertising ban, it has not yet appointed a representative for Türkiye. This situation may be a harbinger of new sanctions.
In addition, unlike other social media channels, Twitter, with its new name X, took a neutral stance in the Israel-Palestine War. Many media organizations did not hesitate to show their side regarding this incident. Especially the platforms under the umbrella of Meta came to the fore with the problem of access to the content and communities of the Palestinians, who are the other side of the war. Under all these conditions, the Turkish State will not impose sanctions on Twitter band throttling, considering public conscience.