First of all, we don’t have that kind of attitude. “Whatever they do, however they behave, we will shut them down.” We never take that approach. Look, we’re talking about up to 60 million social media users. So, after all, I have a global account, which means I have accounts on almost every platform. So me and our team use it, we use it all. Here we’re actually talking about how we can expand this approach instead of living in a ban and censorship mentality. I’m saying that very clearly.

Unfortunately, these social media platforms do not show the democratic approach that we show as a country. I say it very clearly. It can block your account, delete it, and block some posts completely, without any notice to you. After all, it is a private company, of course there are rules and regulations, but they can do things that go against your laws if necessary. So in that sense, we are absolutely in favor of continuing the activities of social media platforms. We never have a prohibition mentality.

We are constantly communicating with Instagram and other social media platforms. There were things that we had told them before. There are issues that we have reported in the past period. What is here? There are issues that we call “catalog crimes” and “sensitivities of our society and our country”. We are constantly reporting. Yesterday, friends re-evaluated, we came to a point. We really want to solve it as soon as possible.

We were not actively working on a new ban on social media. But we are at least monitoring and inspecting. (Roblox) As the Information Technology and Communications Authority (BTK), we were about to comply with the decision of the 6th Criminal Court of Peace of Adana regarding the blocking of a children’s gaming portal. We did so. Let me be honest: it was never on my agenda.

Maybe that’s why we don’t have a small child. It never occurred to me that such a platform existed and that it had so many followers, but when we look at the court’s reasons for banning it, we really have to look at what our children are dealing with. These are our children. I leave that to your discretion. We were only at the point of enforcing the decision there.