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As
Turkey Bans
Tweets on
Syria Role, UN
Won't
Speculate on
Twitter's
Future
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 19 --
Amid attacks
on journalists
and freedom of
expression in
countries all
over the
world, the
United Nations
under
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon is no
sanctuary, nor
champion, the
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
has found.
Beyond stealth
attempts
to get the
Press thrown
out of the UN,
there is often
little but
platitudes
about attacks
elsewhere.
FUNCA is
Pressing the
issue.
On January 19,
Inner City
Press on
behalf of the
Free UN
Coalition for
Access asked
UN deputy
spokesperson
Farhan Haq
about Turkey
having ordered
Twitter,
Google and
Facebook to
remove content
by BirGun
about alleged
Erdogan
government
support to Al
Qaeda
affiliates in
Syria, and
threatening to
ban Twitter
entirely for
not taking
down the
BirGun feed.
Haq replied
vaguely about
the right to
circulate
information
but said he
would not
speculate
about the
future of
Twitter in
Turkey.
Video
here.
It is not
speculation:
earlier this
year Turkey
banned both
Twitter and
YouTube. The Erdogan
government has
made the same
(mis) use of
copyright
claims to censor
leaked
material as
Reuters at the
UN, here.
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