That same day they blocked Zendesk’s entire asset domain (zdassets.com), claiming that illegal betting is used to finance terrorism. A lot of websites are broken now.
To me, it felt like nothing could stop Turkey from becoming the most powerful and influential European country by the end of 21st century. But then Erdogan happened. Oh well.
West Asia is not Europe geographically. People there are not ethnically European, do not speak Indo-European (PIE-derived) languages and are mostly Muslims. The final bit of disrespect was conversion of Saint Sofia cathedral into a mosque. It stopped being European the moment Greeks lost it.
If irony was still a thing, it would be ironic that any comment which doesn't violently agree with the mob here in this thread gets downvoted, flagged and [dead]. In a discussion concerning free speech. But irony is not really a thing anymore in the psychotic internet of 2025, is it?
On topic as for Erdogan, he probably does not give a shit personally about some AI insulting him, but in many cultures they see the head of state as a representative of the people. So if insults are ignored then it's an insult to the people, the national pride, or the party, etc. And such a leader is weak and has to be dethroned, and how will our enemies respect us if we let anybody insult our leader, yada yada.
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[ 1.2 ms ] story [ 40.1 ms ] threadAt one point, they were close to joining the EU.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/01/turkish-presid...
Wow, I never imagined I'd come across this sentence outside a sci-fi story.
On topic as for Erdogan, he probably does not give a shit personally about some AI insulting him, but in many cultures they see the head of state as a representative of the people. So if insults are ignored then it's an insult to the people, the national pride, or the party, etc. And such a leader is weak and has to be dethroned, and how will our enemies respect us if we let anybody insult our leader, yada yada.