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I still find the supposition that Facebook was supposed to defy a court order hilarious. Yes, I understand it's a court order from Turkey, not America, but you can't just flagrantly break the law in other countries simply because yours believes differently.
Does Facebook have any offices, servers or employees in Turkey? If not, they aren't required to do a thing. Even if they did, they just don't store that content on those servers (and maybe compartmentalise dealing with such data away from any employees based there) and they're fine. If that wasn't the case, then any random tinpot dictatorship (such as turkey) could make arbitrary things illegal for anyone in the world, and expect compliance from every single person in the world.
I'm sure turkey would want anyone in the world they could force to be to be brought under sharia law too, not just facebook. Does that mean we should even if we don't live there and don't visit? I for one, don't think so.
Majority muslim nation, cult of personality, widespread corruption, oppressive government, evidence of rigged elections, suppression of free speech. Seems clear-cut to me.
That's as much of a token gesture/joke as Pol Pot's Cambodia calling itself 'Democratic', or the first amendment in the US.
Argentina's constitution says they own the Falkland Islands, yet they don't either. The US constitution guarantees freedom of speech, protection from unlawful searches and surveillance, probable cause for any search, and separation of church and state, yet the actual reality is almost the direct opposite of all of those.
As such, Turkey going "hey, look, we're secular" is worthless when they act like a psychotic dictatorship.
Really? I would imagine that just serving the content to Turkish visitors would be enough for Turkey to see it as violating the law and put any servers or employees there at risk.
Does Facebook have any offices, servers or employees in Turkey? If not, they aren't required to do a thing. Even if they did, they just don't store that content on those servers (and maybe compartmentalise dealing with such data away from any employees based there) and they're fine. If that wasn't the case, then any random tinpot dictatorship (such as turkey) could make arbitrary things illegal for anyone in the world, and expect compliance from every single person in the world.
I'm sure turkey would want anyone in the world they could force to be to be brought under sharia law too, not just facebook. Does that mean we should even if we don't live there and don't visit? I for one, don't think so.