The Charlie Hebdo case shows no signs of stopping: especially in Turkey, where Facebook has ordered - at the request of the Turkish government - to block pages offensive or critical of Mohammed, in order to avoid the blackout of the social network in the Muslim country.
The news bounced on the pages of the New York Times, which speaks of an order by a Turkish Court issued last Sunday, at the explicit request of a Public Prosecutor on the grounds that the images offend the sensibilities of the Muslim majority population and come close to distance from another similar sentence in which the blackout of a site where there were satirical images of the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo was requested.
Mark Zuckerberg's social network, the most used in the world with one billion users, has therefore decided to collaborate with the authorities, as indeed it had already done with India, which is the country in the world that has most asked to censor content: over 5 thousand in the first half of 2014 alone, according to data already available. Turkey is in second place in this special ranking: in the same period it asked – and obtained – to block 1.900 contents (in third place is Pakistan with 1.700 cases).
Not only that: according to reports from the New York Times, Facebook itself admitted that it had received requests for personal information from the Turkish police 249 times in the first half of 2014, and that in 3/5 of these cases, the social network has complied with the requests.
