What's next for social media companies? The digital regulatory scene in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Tarih
2021
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Intellect Ltd
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 9 April 2020, a draft bill was presented to fight against the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey. Eight articles were buried deep in the proposed legislation, which mostly included economic measures and aid packages, directly targeting any social media company that had a platform accessed by over one million users daily. Although the articles on social media were dropped from the parliamentary schedule on 14 April 2020 to make way for more urgent bills on the economy and health, the uncertainty regarding social media companies' situation in the country remained. Then, on 29 July 2020, the new social media law, officially 'The Law on Making Amendments to the Law on Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed by Means of Such Publication', numbered 7253 was adopted by the parliament. This article approaches this issue from the perspective of social media companies, specifically Facebook and Twitter, and analyses the post-Coronavirus digital scene and public policy attempts from the corporate point of view.
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Covıd-19, Coronavirus, Turkey, Social Media, Policy, Legislation
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Journal of Digital Media & Policy
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Q2
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12
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1
