Censorship on Nor Zartonk’s Twitter Account

Nor Zartonk’s twitter account has been suspended since Apr. 25. bianet got information that Nor Zartonk contacted with twitter and received a reply “Your twitter account has been suspended indefinitely due to your violation of Twitter rules, especially our rules related to targeted abuse. Your account will no longer exist.”

Nor Zartonk made a statement “We will not be silent against this racist censorship. The twitter account of Nor Zartonk should be immediately opened and the responsible ones from this should explain the reasoning. We expect all democrat community to support Nor Zartonk against this racist censorship!”

Reason could be a spam attack

IT lawyer, Serhat Koç, analyzed the situation and expressed the reason for closing of the account could be a spam attack and social media must take precautions against these kind of digital lynching attempts. 

“Formerly only the state censored things. After that, twitter itself closed the accounts by court decision. Nowadays accounts are suspended with digital lynching attempts and spam attacks.

Koç: Social media must take precautions against digital lynching attempts

“It’s understood that this must be a spam attack presumably because Twitter didn’t make any request to Nor Zartonk for the content to be removed before. In this case, twitter account’s owner needs to prove that the account belongs to him/her and the account has been hacked.

 “However, twitter users are forced to give away their identities and give up their anonym rights in this way. Social media must put an end these kind of digital lynching attempts and take due precautions for users to be able to take their accounts back.  

Spam attacks

Twitter has an option “report user” for you to report abusive account users. If an account has too many spam or harmful contents, it is suspended without a pre assessment by algorithm. These kind of spam attacks cause genuine users to lose their accounts. People who have counterview could use these kind of spams to make the accounts they don’t like suspend. (EA/BD)

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