president russia type speaking there now did have a reporter rebecca rivers has been following this story for you rebecca tell us about these new regulations and what impact they will have well a live the law which is due to come into effect in october requires social media companies that have more than a 1000000 turkish daily uses that they're the big ones twitter facebook you tube they require them to set up local offices to comply with requests to have content removed requests by the government use a dos a will also have to be stored on servers in turkey and that's quite important if companies refuse they face hefty fines and also a spade cuts which would render their platforms virtually unusable now the impact would be huge on both ordinary citizens and. journalists as well social media channels have become a primary platform for critics of the government dissenting voices and alternative news organizations human rights watch we have a statement which we can bring up for you says the bill will greatly increase censorship they said that the new law will enable the government to control

reporter rebecca rivers has been following the story she joins me now here. so let's talk about this rebecca about the new regulations versus the impact that they're going to have well brant this law which will come into effect in october requires social media companies the big ones the ones that have more than a 1000000 turkish daily uses such as facebook twitter you tube and the like it will . it will mean that they have to set up local offices to comply with requests to take content down basically content requests from the government i use it out of also have to be stored on servers in turkey making it much easier to access that use adata if the companies refuse they face hefty fines and also datta speed cuts which obviously makes their platforms unusable and the impact is going to be huge on ordinary turkish citizens and journalists a lie. the internet has become the primary the primary platform for critics of the government for dissenting voices and when i wanted to be critical alternative news organizations now human rights of obviously come out saying t

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