Official confirmation is that there have been explosions in Istanbul airport. Enough already.https://twitter.com/140journos/status/747873026436399104 …
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My thoughts after the attack in Istanbul yesterday. We will live on our terms: life and joy. https://www.facebook.com/technosociology/posts/833518140116178 …pic.twitter.com/8Slwd5c38h
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ankaralı Jan
Twitter and Facebook are back up, after being throttled after the Istanbul attack. Censorship makes it all worse.https://twitter.com/06JAnk/status/748076137327304704 …
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Makes it worse only in Western cultures. The nature of fundamentalist, literal (Sunni) Islam necessitates censorship in M.E. culture
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Biggest mistake Western observers make is thinking human terrain over there is the same as it is here. It isn't
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M.E. has no fundamental concept of free speech, little cultural church-state separation, almost no religious moderation
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Turkey had a widely-popular free speech platform called "eksi sozluk" years before Twitter/Facebook. Not a monolith as you portray.
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I was speaking about Middle East in general, not Turkey specifically.
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Many of the bravest free speech activists I know are from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain & Pakistan. But US & UK support their brutal gov'ts.
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bc the alternative to those brutal govts is a caliphate. Quasi-secular repression prevents wholesale fundamentalist rule
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Which is what such cultures default to left to their own devices
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