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It is surprising to me how easy Internet companies are bullied into censorship. Services should start carrying the "Banned in Turkey" flag as a badge of honor. "Banned in China" is required nowadays if you want to be taken seriously anyway.

For individuals, "Banned from Facebook" has a similar note. For a time now, Kurdish interests have been prosecuted by Facebook. And not just in Turkey.

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I think the likes of WeChat and Alibaba have Western companies thinking twice before proudly wearing a "Banned in China" badge.

turkey is no china, china is a economy power, contributes a lot to the world. Turkey is nothing like that, they do contribute in promoting Jihadi and extremist version of islam but that is not the contribution you want.

In all fairness Turkey does have a sizable economy. Not clear whether that will be true in a year though. Not just humans, a lot of capital has been fleeing the seizures.

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