Social media regulation was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
The law proposal for the amendment of the law on the regulation of publications made on the internet known as social media regulation and combating the crimes committed through these publications was accepted at the General Assembly of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
Nervous night in parliament
According to the news of Saliha Çolak from Habertürk, while the General Assembly of TBMM was working until the morning for its social media offer, a fight broke out before the last vote.
When HDP deputy Hüseyin Kaçmaz accused the government of making Kurdish hostility, a reaction came from the AK Party ranks. Meanwhile, after the words of the deputy of Diyarbakır Oya Eronat, the session was interrupted.
After a break of about an hour, the general assembly was reopened. Eronat was proposed to be given “condemnation for his rude and hurtful words”. AK Party Group President Naci Bostancı said that Kaçmaz’s speech was extremely hurtful and that Eronat’s words should be taken in the context of the reaction. “The speaker was not told, he points to the pronoun. He meant the PKK,” said Bostanci.
The proposal was rejected with the AK Party and MHP votes. Eronat was not sentenced to condemnation. There was tension again at the general assembly. There was a short-term conflict between the AK Party and CHP deputies, and the session was interrupted.
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WHAT DOES THE ARRANGEMENTS INCLUDE?
With the proposal, social network providers are identified.
Administrative penalties imposed under the Law will be reported by the InformationTechnology and Communication Authority if the addressee is abroad.
With the regulation, in cases where it is possible to remove the partial content that constitutes the crime, the decision to remove the content is provided instead of the decision to block access.
The President will be fined from 100,000 TL to 1 million TL for the location provider who does not report the location provider or fulfill his obligations in this Law.
Turkey abroad with access to more than 1 million sourced daily from the social network provider to determine representative in Turkey.
The social network provider, who does not fulfill the obligation to determine and report a representative, will receive an administrative fine of 10 million lira to the social network provider if the obligation is not met within 30 days of the BTK notification. Thirty days after the notification of this penalty, the administrative penalty will be thirty million TL if the obligation is not fulfilled. If the obligation is not fulfilled within thirty days from the second administrative penalty notification, the social network provider will be prohibited from advertising. The next stage of the sentence will be a 50 percent reduction in bandwidth to the social network provider.
If people apply to the social network provider, they will have to respond positively or negatively within 48 hours of the application.
If fines are repeated within one year, the fines will be increased by one fold and this provision will be effective from 01.10.2020.
THE ASSEMBLY IS HOLIDAY
Parliament went on holiday until October 1 after the social media arrangement.
