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‘It’s a war on words’: Turks fear new law to muzzle social media giants

Summary by The Guardian
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s draconian legislation comes into force this week in a bid to censor free speech onlineWhen a team of 20 police officers demanded to search journalist Oktay Candemir’s flat earlier this month, he feared the worst: members of the Turkish media who are critical of the government are often arrested on spurious terrorism charges, and he has been in trouble several times before.

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