Turkey: Dangerous, Dystopian New Legal Amendments

Source:Human Rights Watch Date:16Oct2022

Everything you wish to know about Turkey’s Disinformation Prevention Act

“Taken together, the new legislation represents a draconian new chapter ahead of elections in 2023 by increasing the weapons in the government’s arsenal to enforce censorship and tighten control over social media and independent online news sites,” said Sarah Clarke, Head of Europe and Central Asia at ARTICLE 19, “With severe penalties against tech companies for failure to comply with user data and content take-down requests, the law will force tech companies to be complicit with an almost total censorship regime.”