The Turkish Government has vetoed advertising on the social networks of Twitter and Pinterest, for not having complied with these companies with the new law that requires large telecommunications companies to appoint a legal representative in Turkey, reported today the Ministry of Communication.
According to a law approved last July and with an adaptation period until October, any foreign telecommunications company with more than one million daily accesses to its network in Turkey must appoint a representative in the Eurasian country.
In addition, you must respond in Turkish to user complaints, assume legal responsibilities if you do not delete certain content and store local customer data on a server located in the national territory.
In a message on Twitter, the Deputy Minister of Communication, Ă–mer Fatih Sayan, announced this morning that neither Twitter nor Pinterest have complied with this law, shortly after congratulating himself that Facebook had finally appointed a representative.
The vice-minister added that if he continues to violate the law, Twitter will have its bandwidth reduced by 50% as of April and by 90% in May.
According to the Turkish agency Anadolu, the social networks Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, VK and DailyMotion have already appointed a local representative, in compliance with the law.
Last November, the Turkish government imposed fines of 10 million lira (approximately 1 million euros / 1.22 million dollars) on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Periscope, Youtube and Tiktok, warning that the next step would be a fine of the triple amount and then the advertising veto.