Op-Eds
Negligent Social Media Platforms Breeding Grounds for Turkish Nationalism, Hate Speech
So reads the gruesome admission of one Kurdish law student on Twitter: “They sent me pictures of dead Kurdish women, and told me they would do the same thing to me. Also [there is] a video where a Kurd was beheaded by a Turkish soldier. I still remember the sound it made when the Turkish soldier threw away the head and laughed. I get a lot of rape threats and insults daily.” Platforms like Twitter and Instagram vow to keep their users safe by upholding a number of rules regarding hate speech and violence, but these rules hardly ever apply to Turkish nationalists.
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Well done. The hate speech and hate crimes keep piling up, and the cyber-harassment is a significant and deeply disturbing component of this worldwide anti-Armenian campaign by Azeris and Turks. The fact that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram *enable* the harassers is highly problematic. In so doing, they encourage acts such as the Grey Wolves lynch mobs and hammer-knife attacks of peaceful protesters (near Lyon, France on Oct. 28, 2020). This list of recent hate crimes is from end July. Sadly it must be updated:
https://medium.com/@zoravik/our-response-to-azeri-hate-crimes-vandalism-and-attacks-on-peaceful-protestors-46de9a49f617
And here, more on the Grey Wolves:
https://mena-studies.org/the-grey-wolves-conquering-europe/?fbclid=IwAR0lCrAejJA_-PviQ4WbiD8R3W6FF1AyIxg8vQkZAKLmugkaMZybgc3UJn8
thanks for info.