This misinformation thing needs to be stopped. Not only this is total censorship but this literally gives governments unimaginable tyrannical powers of propaganda and control. This needs to be put to end NOW before it continues to spread. This is nonsense. Turkey wants to throw people in jail over “spreading misinformation”? What is “misinformation” in the first place? Who is the master of truth? Who defines what is real and what is false? Why your government of course.
If your government decides to say “No Turkey was never an empire, we never oppressed anyone. The Ottoman empire was a different entity.” and you say, but WE WERE the Ottomans. It was us, not others, not Africans, not Persians, us, here, we Turks, were were the Ottomans.
Well this right here could be “misinformation” and you could be thrown in jail for this. Additionally someone with A FREAKING OPINION about anything could be labled “misinformation”, like “I believe today will not rain even though weather channels say it will rain.” There you go: Misinformation! Jail time for you!
This is fucking insane. People who even propose such laws should be jailed before their vile ideas materialize into reality. Humanity exists for thousands of years yet we never had such insane laws “Censorship and jail for misinformation.” This is only a recent thing, a product of insanity that was given birth in USA specifically by Donald Trump. Trump was the one who invented this crap as he began calling the mainstream media “Fake News” and from this it has evolved into this “misinformation” we have today and it has spread to all corners of the world. We’ve gotten to the point of Turkey jailing people over expressing their “wrong” opinions.
Imagine this… this is a perfect law any dictator wants in its arsenal. A law that says jail over misinformation… what the hell? We need to make a stand and destroy this idea of “government punishment over misinformation.”
Even writing an op-ed or telling a joke, anything could be interpreted as a misinformation. This is bollocks, what they want is to basically: do not deviate from party lines or else.
Give misinformation laws to China.
A Chinese says: My government is sending Uyghurs to concentration camps.
China: NOT TRUE! JAIL FOR YOU!
Give misinformation laws to Iran.
An Iranian says: Life in Iran was better under the Shah and with USA as a partner.
Iran: NOT TRUE! JAIL FOR YOU!
Give misinformation laws to Israel.
An Israelil says: Maybe we should stop occupying West Bank lands. We already took too much.
Israel: NOT TRUE! WE NEVER STOLE ANY LANDS! JAIL FOR YOU!
Give misinformation laws to Canada.
A Canadian says: The truckers were right to protest the vaccination laws. They were oppressive and vaccination should be a CHOICE WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES! Besides COVID is not as dangerous as they say, it only has a death rate of below 1%.
Canadian authorities: NOT TRUE! JAIL FOR YOU!
This is insane! We must put an end to “misinformation laws”. This is not even censorship. This is simply tyranny.
Infowars report:
The Turkish government introduced a new law in parliament that will give the government more control over the internet. The law was drafted by President’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
The law, which is expected to pass, will punish “spreading misinformation on purpose.” It prohibits publicly spreading “false information regarding internal and external security, public order and the general health of the country, in a way that is suitable for disturbing the public peace, simply for the purpose of creating anxiety, fear or panic among the people.”
The punishment for intentionally spreading “false information” will be one to three years in prison. If the court finds that a person spread false information as part of an organization that is illegal, the sentence will be doubled.
Journalists might also be arrested under the new law for hiding sources who gave them “false information.”
Under the new law, web-only media outlets will be allowed to register as periodical media publications. While that makes them enjoy some of the privileges of traditional media, like press cards, they will be required to follow some rules. For instance, they will be required to remove content the government deems false and must archive their publications, which allows the government to more easily block access to their websites.
“On the request of the ministries, the President may decide to remove the content and/or block access to be fulfilled within four hours regarding broadcasts on the internet,” the new law states, referring to the President of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority.
The law also updated the regulations on official press cards. The old regulations, which were created by the Communications Directorate, which answers to the president, gave the government the authority to cancel press cards of journalists who criticized the government.
The new law will create a Press Card Commission, which will have nine members, five from the Communications Directorate and the others will be representatives from journalists’ unions and academics.
The draft bill was severely condemned by journalists. In a joint statement, the Turkish Committee of the International Press Institute, the Journalists’ Association, and the Journalists’ Union of Turkey said that they were “concerned that it may lead to one of the most severe censorship and self-censorship mechanisms in the history of the republic, we call for the immediate withdrawal of this bill, which seems to have been designed to increase the pressure on journalism, not ‘fight against disinformation.”
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