So, today's topic in Turkey was governmental regulations regarding social media. Erdoğan said they were going to introduce a bill to take control of social media. While Al Jazeera says this was because people insulted his son-in-law (who is also the Minister of Treasury & Finance), more probably it was because a video conference that took place last week. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decided it was a good idea to pander to Gen Z via a video conference with some youngsters. It went as expected. The video now has 100K likes and 400K dislikes. The chat box is filled with "NO VOTE FOR YOU" messages. The comment section is also disabled, of course. I think now Erdoğan realized how much the Gen Z and millenials hate him. Also he realized social media is not really a friend of his so he decided to take it away from us. At least that's my I guess.

Now, another aspect of this is how the opposition leaders reacted to this. At one point Erdogan said "Now do you realize why we hate social media sites such as Youtube, Twitter, Netflix?"

IYIP's (one of the opposition parties) leader Akşener retweeted with comment "If you shut down Netflix before I finish watching the last season of DARK I'll be offended.", the main opposition party CHP's leader Kılıçdaroğlu commented on Akşener saying "Now Erdoğan is going to give spoiler to spite you :)" . And HDP's (another big opposition party) leader Pervin Buldan said "We also were waiting for the last season of La Casa De Papel 😔" [1 2 3]

People (especially young people) took these as mockery & unseriosness, so of course they were not pleased with it. It's kind of a serious business when the government threats people's rights so we expected a more serious approach from party leaders, alas...

Anyway, the main take away from all this: Boomers really, really don't know what young people like or don't like. They are all r/fellowkids material.