Turkey Bans Discord Messaging Platform Why?
Turkey has taken a decision to impose immediate restrictions on using the instant messaging platform Discord in line with a court decision when the portal didn't provide the information asked by Ankara, Said the Turkish authorities on Wednesday.
Highlights
1- Ankara court decided to block access to Discord from Turkey
2- The platform praised the murder incident that killed by 19-year-old boy
3- Russian authority also blocked Discord for violating Russian law
One San Francisco-based company Discord avoid to publish any response after facing the ban on the messaging platform Discord.
Turkey's Information Technologies and Communication Authority publishes the access total ban decision on its websites.
Currently, in Turkey, access to the Discord messaging platform is banned according to the Ankara court due to sufficient suspicion that crimes of "Child sexual abuse and obscenity" had been committed by some using the platform.
The suspension news comes after witnessing the public outrage in Turkey caused by the murder of two women by a 19-year-old man in Istanbul this month. The Discord users and the content on it are seen praising the killing.
"Security personnel cannot go through the content. We can only intervene when users complain to us about content shared there," Told the reporters in parliament.
"Since Discord refused to share its information, including IP addresses and content, with our security units, we were forced to block access."
The Russian regulators blocked Discord for violating Russian Law, to Discord which has failed to remove banned content, the TASS news agency reported.