(with Yaman Akdeniz) Turkey‘s new social media law and its consequences

Host: Cansu Çamlıbel | Guest: Yaman Akdeniz


In this fifth episode, host Çamlıbel and her guest Yaman Akdeniz,
a prominent Turkish academic and cyber-rights expert, discuss
Turkey’s controversial new social media regulations. The new
social media law passed in July 2020 places huge liability and
legal responsibility on social media platforms and is widely seen
as a new tool for the Erdoğan government’s regime to censor
content online and put freedom of expression and journalism at
great risk.


Topics covered in the podcast include:


General assessment on what the new social media law means for
journalists, activists and other members of the society as social
media users

Great legal and social liability that the law puts on big
tech companies

Possible outcomes for social media platforms and what to
expect from them as a response

The criteria and standard procedure for big tech companies
such as Twitter to answer the blocking demands from countries

Difference between Germany’s social media law and its newly
Turkish version

The consequences for independent news media if social media
networks comply with the regulation

How would this law affect the government and its supporters,
who heavily use social media and make good use out of it



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