Ekşi Sözlük made a statement against the closure decision. Access barrier will continue in Turkey.
According to the statement from the management of the supplement, no justification was given for the decision to close. You can read the full text of the explanation below.
Explanation from Ekşi Sözlük
“Hello,
We were able to have a meeting with the btk on the subject and we also received a hand notification of the decision of the criminal judge of peace, whose decision number we shared with you before. the aforementioned decision was made pursuant to article 8/a of the law no. 5651 with the letter of the presidency of administrative affairs, general directorate of security affairs; No content was used as a basis for this decision.
The reason for the blocking of our entire site is that the public order was given wrong information by the authors of the sour dictionary, the society was tried to be directed, although the access blocking decisions made by the peace judges were fulfilled by the management of the peace dictionary, the public order was affected by the fact that the society could not reach the right information during this period, especially After the earthquake, it was determined that false information was given about the military and state institutions, the society was tried to be directed and the state was shown in a state of helplessness, there were posts aiming to create an atmosphere of turmoil among the sections of the society, and the site administrators did not show the necessary reaction to the wrong and slanderous articles, internal control was not provided, harmful It has been shown that the shares and comments are not blocked by the Eksor Dictionary management.
As indicated in the justification, as a website subject to the legislation of the Republic of Turkey, we implement court decisions and fulfill all our other legal obligations with precision. However, we use our moderation activity at the highest capacity in social events such as the recent disaster. Just as gsm operators experience disruptions in their work due to congestion, the response speed may slow down due to the fact that the content increases much faster than normal in such events. We will work to prevent these agglomerations. however, as everyone will admit, even in these situations, our response speed is faster than any social media platform we can compare with, we have the same sensitivities as our users and readers. We do not see our responsibilities only within the limits of the law in such big events, we also make an effort to take action quickly as a humanitarian. Although the responsibility given to us by the law as a hosting provider is limited, we are sensitive about content that will cause outrage in the society, and we interfere with such titles and contents. We do not separate any segment, thought or person in our interventions, we always try to preserve polyphony. Although this effort does not make anyone happy today, our aim is to keep the collective memory record by conveying the thoughts of people from all walks of life, rather than making someone happy.
We will take all legal remedies against the decision.
If there is any development, we will share it with you. Thank you for all your support so far.
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