US Media: "Turkey censors!"
The world: "Doesn't the US block sites under the Trading with the Enemy Act?"
US Media: "But that's different!"
The world: "Doesn't the US block sites under the Trading with the Enemy Act?"
US Media: "But that's different!"
Disclaimer: I didn't read it
Also I just realized that the Biblical saying “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” is literal whataboutism as well
Also, the USA lacks the infrastructure to block websites. They have to cut them off at the source, get every ISP to somehow cooperate, or maybe blow aware their DNS, but there is no equivalent of the Great Firewall of China.
Finally, to believe that everything is just black and white and that because the USA does X and the other country does X that they are on the same scale is itself a fallacy.
US Media: "But that's just for the bad guys, silly! Erdogan is Muslim and jails people - he's worse!"