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IT’S THE LAW (10/18/2022)

Turkey’s parliament just passed amendments that raise significant human rights concerns for changes to laws governing censorship, journalism, and social media. This includes empowering its government with the ability to compel social media companies to comply with requests to take down online content and hand over user data. And, companies unwilling to comply, can face “internet throttling,” which means their company bandwidth would be clipped.