Nobody, except perhaps Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, seems very happy about Turkey’s ban on Twitter. It has caused an uproar among Turkish citizens, who are finding ways get around the ban, Turkey’s own president, and now the White House.
The Obama administration condemned the ban in an emailed statement on Friday, stating that blocking Twitter undermines a citizen’s “ability to exercise freedoms of expression and association,” and “runs contrary to the principles of open governance that are critical to democratic governance and the universal rights that the United States stands for around the world.” Read more…
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