On breaching new internet law Turkey fines social media giants | Flash News PK
On breaching new internet law Turkey fines social media giants
For not abiding by Turkish regulation and new internet law by Turkey social media giants Faccebook, Instagram, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and TikTok are fined to pay more than $ 1.1m.
Turkey has fined worldwide online media organizations, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, 10 million lira ($1.18m) each for not consenting to it's web-based media law.
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The new law, which was implemented a month ago, requires platforms with more than 1,000,000 every day clients in Turkey to delegate an agent responsible to Turkish courts, submit to requests to eliminate "hostile" content inside 48 hours and store client information inside Turkey.
Critics said the law would muzzle dissent from people who resorted to online platforms after the government tightened its grip on mainstream media.
The fines are the first step on an escalating scale of penalties that can end in a block on 90 percent of the site’s internet traffic bandwidth.
Omer Fatih Sayan, chairman of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority, said on Twitter on Wednesday that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and TikTok would be fined.
“Foreign companies operating in Turkey that reach more than one million people daily have been told about some of the rules they need to comply with,” Sayan, who is also Turkey’s deputy transport and infrastructure minister, said.
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Sayan added that measures, in case of further non-compliance, will include a 30 million lira ($3.5m) fine, a ban on advertisement and a 50 percent bandwidth cut within five months.
Companies that still do not follow the law will have their bandwidth slashed by 90 percent, he said, essentially blocking access.
If companies comply, Sayan said the restrictions will be lifted and a quarter of the imposed fine will be collected.
“Our aim is not to be in conflict with these providers serving billions of people around the world,” tweeted Sayan.
The legislation was passed in July, not exactly a month after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for web-based media sites to be "tidied up" as his daughter and son in-law were offended on Twitter following the birth of their fourth child.
Turkey has recently obstructed sites including YouTube, Twitter and Wikipedia for what it claimed was hostile content.
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