{"id":1360,"date":"2015-07-22T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2015-07-22T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:31:07","slug":"why-turkeys-brief-ban-of-twitter-was-dumb-and-futile-public-radio-international-22-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/07\/22\/why-turkeys-brief-ban-of-twitter-was-dumb-and-futile-public-radio-international-22-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Turkey\u2019s brief ban of Twitter was dumb and futile | Public Radio International, 22 July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOf\u00a0all the things to worry about now in Turkey, to have the country ban a source of information seems both an overreaction and totally misplaced,\u201d says Zeynep Tufekci, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and also a fellow at Harvard\u2019s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a specialist on Turkish Internet activism. \u201cUnfortunately, it seems like instead of controlling the situation, there is this emphasis on controlling the flow of information. It doesn\u2019t work, and it doesn\u2019t address the tumultuous situation to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-07-22\/why-turkey-s-brief-ban-twitter-was-dumb-and-futile\">Why Turkey\u2019s brief ban of Twitter was dumb and futile | Public Radio International<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOf\u00a0all the things to worry about now in Turkey, to have the country ban a source of information seems both an overreaction and totally misplaced,\u201d says Zeynep Tufekci, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/07\/22\/why-turkeys-brief-ban-of-twitter-was-dumb-and-futile-public-radio-international-22-july-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}