 Please subscribe to this YouTube channel mentor talk can do press bell button for notifications. After China, Singapore and several other countries, Turkey's parliament has recently approved a law regulating the social media. This law makes it mandatory for the foreign social media sites to appoint Turkish-based representatives to respond to the government authority's concerns regarding the content posted on their respective social media sites. The law also stipulates time limits for deletion of any objectionable material pointed out by the Turkish authorities. The opponents of the said law have mooted that this law will enhance censorship and support Turkish authorities to suppress the dissent. The new regulations provide stringent imposition of fines and penalties against the social media companies and even the prohibition on the advertisements on their sites. The companies could also face the slashing of their bandwidth to the extent of 90 percent thereby making them completely defunct. Apparently this new set of law has triggered because majority of youth in Turkey and that we would have noticed also on television and other media on the internet that these youth of Turkey have boycotted the mainstream media which is already government controlled and they have been overwhelmingly using the social media and informal new online news sites apps for impartial objective news, views and opinions. Social media has been under surveillance in Turkey while in the past many have been booked as well for offending the current establishment as well as condemnation connected to foreign military incursions with regard to Turkey and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Office had questioned this law before actually it had become a law you know when it was at the stage of the bill and it was questioned by them on the ground that it gives the state powerful tool for for asserting their control more control over the media landscape. Turkish government however believes that these regulations were necessary and are not about censorship but a means of establishing commercial and legal ties with these social media platforms. Well only time will tell whether these you know regulations are coercive or facilitator. Please subscribe to this YouTube channel mentor talk and do press bell button for notifications