{"id":151,"date":"2020-08-31T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ifade.org.tr\/en\/?p=151"},"modified":"2020-10-12T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:36:07","slug":"digital-censorship-turkeys-new-social-media-law-and-its-implications-for-free-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/news\/digital-censorship-turkeys-new-social-media-law-and-its-implications-for-free-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Censorship: Turkey\u2019s New Social Media Law and Its Implications for Free Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/web.ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/740x500_Turkey_webinar_08312020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/740x500_Turkey_webinar_08312020.jpg 740w, https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/740x500_Turkey_webinar_08312020-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/740x500_Turkey_webinar_08312020-700x473.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The IPI Turkish National Committee hosted the English-language webinar \u201c<strong>Digital Censorship: Turkey\u2019s New Social Media Law and Its Implications for Free Media<\/strong>\u201d following the passage of Turkey\u2019s controversial new social media regulations in July which dramatically expands government control over free expression on social media and online platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.ifade.org.tr\/haberler\/dijital-sansur-sosyal-medya-yasaklanabilir-mi\/\">An initial Turkish-language webinar on the social media law<\/a> was held to mark Turkey\u2019s Press Day on July 24, which marks the abolition of official censorship in 1908 during the late Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speakers included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Banu G\u00fcven,<\/strong>\u00a0Anchorwoman, journalist for DW Turkish<\/li><li><strong>Sergey Lagodinsky<\/strong>, MEP (Greens\/EFA), Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee<\/li><li><strong>Emre K\u0131z\u0131lkaya<\/strong>,\u00a0Vice-chair of IPI Turkey National Committee; Project editor, Journo.com.tr<\/li><li><strong>Yaman Akdeniz<\/strong>, Academic and cyber-rights expert<\/li><li><strong>Scott Griffen,<\/strong>\u00a0IPI Deputy Director<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"IPI Turkey Webinar (Aug 31, 2020)\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3oRhb0Wm2sQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IPI Turkish National Committee hosted the English-language webinar \u201cDigital Censorship: Turkey\u2019s New Social Media Law and Its Implications for Free Media\u201d following the passage of Turkey\u2019s controversial new social media regulations in July which dramatically expands government control over free expression on social media and online platforms. An initial Turkish-language webinar on the social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}