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Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Line between respect and freedom of speach

You may have heard about the shooting which happened in Istanbul, Turkey a couple of days ago concerning supposedly left-extremists taking a prosecutor hostage. People uploaded a lot of images of the whole scenario, for example also of the prosecutor being taken hostage with a gun pointed to his head.


The Turkish Government then blocked social media sites such as Twitter where these images started spreading. We all know that Turkey has a... special stance towards social media and that they are not really a big fan of it. They said that the pictures were "anti-government propaganda". And this is true. But should something be banned because it is anti-government? Isn't that freedom of speach?

A seemingly more reasonable comment is that "the wife and children are deeply upset". And honestly, who wouldn't be upset to see pictures in which a family member has a gun pointed to their head going viral? So where is the line between respecting the family and freedom of speach? Feel free to post your thoughts in the comments section below :)





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