twitter After the decision to ban advertising on the platform Ömer Fatih Sayan, Deputy Minister of Transport Made a statement on Threads.
There was a surprise last night and Information Technologies and Communication Institution’Those who do not fulfill their obligation to designate a representative and notify with the decision numbered 39225 of the X Corp. (Twitter) has been banned from advertising. The decision shared on this resounding issue was exactly as follows:Former title Twitter, Incolan X Corp. (Twitter), it has been decided to ban new advertisements from real and legal persons who are taxpayers residing in Turkey, in accordance with the second paragraph of the additional article 4 and the temporary article 6 of the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Broadcasts Made on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed Through These Broadcasts. About this process, Deputy Minister of Transport Ömer Fatih Sayan said: conveyed: “With the additional article 4 added to the Law No. 5651 in 2020, social network providers with daily access of more than 1 million from Turkey were obliged to designate a representative in Turkey. In this context, 9 social network representatives, including social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, were identified and reported to the BTK.
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Representatives were obliged to fulfill the demands, notifications and notifications received from judicial authorities and administrative authorities. In addition, fulfilling various obligations such as making a semi-annual report and answering user applications in Turkish were among the duties of the representative. In 2022, the said article was amended in order to strengthen the interlocutor relationship with social network providers, to protect the rights of users in Turkey more effectively, and to fulfill the decisions of the competent authorities in a timely manner. In this context; Various obligations were imposed on social network providers in terms of providing differentiated services for children, protecting user rights more effectively, providing a crisis plan, creating an ad library and increasing transparency.
In addition, social network providers from abroad, including Twitter, with more than 10 million daily access from Turkey, were separated and a regulation was made to hold their representatives fully authorized and responsible in terms of administrative, technical, financial and legal aspects. However, Twitter, which does not fulfill its obligation to designate and notify a representative in accordance with the new regulation, despite the time given and all the negotiations, is prohibited from advertising by taxpayer real and legal persons residing in Turkey.
Pursuant to the ban, no new advertisements will be placed on Twitter, no new contracts will be established within this scope, and no money transfer will be made. The expenses of the advertisements given to those who have been banned from advertising will be counted among the payments that are not considered as expenses in accordance with the Income Tax Law and the discounts that are not accepted in accordance with the Corporate Tax Law. If he does not designate a representative within three months, throttling of Twitter’s bandwidth will be on the agenda.”
Here especially “Bandwidth Narrowing will be on the agenda” The part is very important, and without it, Twitter, owned by Elon Musk, is expected to take an official representative step. As you know, Elon Musk is among the names very close to Turkey.