Η Turkey says it is investigating 10.000 to fight terrorism users of social media, but it can also be an excuse to silence freedom of speech.
Turkey has been snapping up internet activity since the summer of the coup attempt. The interior ministry of the country has revealed that its officials are investigating about 10.000 users of social media as suspects in support of terrorism.
In fact, they report that about 3.710 people have been questioned during the last 6 months and that 1.656 was arrested. The rest were considered innocent but 1.203 of them are still under surveillance.
There is an inevitable question, however: how many of the social network users actually support terrorism? Despite the protests the Turkish government is anecdotal about blocking Facebook, Twitter and other internet services whenever there is a surge of discontent against President Erdogan.
The country has closed 150 news agencies at this time, and even if some users of these 10.000 conspire against the government, terrorist accusations may be just a pretext to further silence the country.
