Internet censorship

Human Rights Watch accused Meta yesterday of restricting pro-Palestinian content on Facebook and Instagram, decrying "systemic online censorship" since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war.

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The social media service remains operational today. But its outages, bugs and other glitches are increasingly piling up.

President Tayyip Erdogan's government has cracked down more aggressively on dissent and political opponents ahead of Turkish elections with censorship and prison sentences, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

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The report, entitled 'Disabled Web 2020: Fahrenheit 5651, The Corrosive Effect of Censorship', says that more than 467,000 websites have been banned in Turkey since 2006, with 58,809 website bans in 2020.

Threatens to ban her account

In the semi-democracies of the region, as lives moved from the public to the digital sphere, many freedoms were likewise suspended, while the burden of responsibility for violations fell on citizens as government imposed restrictions that in many cases flouted normal standards of human rights.

A conservative, Islamist-backed law professor looked set to assume Tunisia's presidency after polling agencies suggested he overwhelmingly won Oct. 13's runoff election in the country that unleashed the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings.

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