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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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
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 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Makes it worse only in Western cultures. The nature of fundamentalist, literal (Sunni) Islam necessitates censorship in M.E. culture
Biggest mistake Western observers make is thinking human terrain over there is the same as it is here. It isn't
M.E. has no fundamental concept of free speech, little cultural church-state separation, almost no religious moderation
Turkey had a widely-popular free speech platform called "eksi sozluk" years before Twitter/Facebook. Not a monolith as you portray.
I was speaking about Middle East in general, not Turkey specifically.
Many of the bravest free speech activists I know are from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain & Pakistan. But US & UK support their brutal gov'ts.
bc the alternative to those brutal govts is a caliphate. Quasi-secular repression prevents wholesale fundamentalist rule
Which is what such cultures default to left to their own devices
Gah. You think Saudi, Bahraini or Pakistani repression is "quasi secular" and against fundamentalists? Wow. Learn a bit more. Bye.
Didn't say "against." Said "prevents" as in "provides an alternative to"
ISIS' rise in the Syria/Iraq power vacuum is proof thereof
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