Turkey is going to take a step which may be replicated by many more countries; it may soon permit its regulator RTUK to regulate online content. A draft law has been submitted to parliament on 8 February, though it is being opposed by the main opposition party said amounted to digital censorship.
The main opposition secular Republican People Party (CHP) spokesman Bulent Tezcan said: "This is the prevention of broadcasting by denying licenses through RTUK. We live in the digital world."
The bill if passed will give muscles to RTUK watchdog to stop audio and video material streamed online, social media posts and films offered by Internet-based providers like Netflix if they are deemed a threat to national security or moral values.
The opposition parties accused President Tayyip Erdogan and his government saying that he has sharply curtailed freedom of speech and basic freedoms.
According to Turkey's Transport, Maritime and Communication Minister Ahmet Arslan, “The regulation was not aimed at censoring work being done within our normal moral values, but rather at preventing wrongs. Freedoms are not limitless. If a broadcast that can harm the country's national security, survival, and our people's moral judgments is being done, then it is interfered with."
The bill if passed will give muscles to RTUK watchdog to stop audio and video material streamed online, social media posts and films offered by Internet-based providers like Netflix if they are deemed a threat to national security or moral values.
The opposition parties accused President Tayyip Erdogan and his government saying that he has sharply curtailed freedom of speech and basic freedoms.
According to Turkey's Transport, Maritime and Communication Minister Ahmet Arslan, “The regulation was not aimed at censoring work being done within our normal moral values, but rather at preventing wrongs. Freedoms are not limitless. If a broadcast that can harm the country's national security, survival, and our people's moral judgments is being done, then it is interfered with."
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