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Or, they just did the expected. Those accounts were unlawful and there were court orders against them. You or I may disagree with it does not matter.

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The question is at what point a service has to accept local laws. Like when a country bans "sexual images" or certain pictures of "prophets" or criticism of its political leaders, does Twitter, or for that matter any other service - esp. Google, has to bow to that law.

I'd imagine at the point that the options become "comply with the law" or "deny access to that locality".

Like any whistle-blowing.It's illegal so no one should whistle-blow and any corruption should stay hidden.

These accounts will just switch to Russian social media or blogs.mail.ru which have Turkish language support and would be happy to host corruption docs of the Erdogan regime. Then use twitter to spread links to it.

Nothing twitter can do if thousands of Turkish twitter users are linking to pastebin entries and other moving targets hosting links where to get these docs.

We have seen haramzadeler switch accounts from @haramzadereler1 to @haramzadeler333 and many numbers in between beforehand. So they will just switch accounts hence it's a matter of time before twitter bows and creates a special api for AKP government just to deny any account they want.

funny, pastebin is blocked in Turkey. The censorship is not conservative in turkey

For Twitter, they preferred complying with the law. If there would not be large interest groups on this event and only known individuals would be acting, I would symphatise. But sorry IMHO this case is too dodgy to call "whistle blowing".

Really? So in your opinion letting people learn about prime ministry level corruption and ministry level threats of starting war with Syria is not whistle blowing?

I think you also believe the recordings are montages.

I do not take sides on this. I just felt both sides are master manipulators and I prefer to ignore both.

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