The Turkish parliament has passed a law to regulate social media.
According to a foreign news agency, the Turkish parliament passed a law on Wednesday that would give the authorities extraordinary powers to regulate social media instead of censorship.
Under the social media law, major social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter will have to open offices in Turkey and appoint representatives to deal with content complaints.
Under the bill, if a social media company refuses to appoint a local representative, the law provides for penalties for the company, while reducing the company's bandwidth, including banning its advertising. In addition, the court decision will reduce the bandwidth by 50 to 90 percent, the reduction in bandwidth means that the use of social media networks will be extremely slow.
Under the bill, representatives of social media companies will have 48 hours to respond to requests for violations of content privacy and consumer rights, or they will have to justify rejecting such requests when such content In case of block or non-removal within 24 hours, the company will have to compensate the loss.
In addition, the new law requires social media companies to protect user data in Turkey.
On the social media law, the Turkish government says legislation was needed to curb cybercrime and protect consumers, which would now allow the removal of content that violates cybercrime, including ridicule of women.
