Meta To Close Threads In Turkey To Comply With Injunction

Meta plans to "temporarily" shut down Threads in Turkey from April 29, in response to an interim injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram. TechCrunch reports: The Turkish Competition Authority (TCA), known as Rekabet Kurumu, noted on March 18 that its investigations found that Meta was abusing its dominant market position by combining the data of users who create Threads profiles with that of their Instagram account -- without giving users the choice to opt in. [...] In the buildup to April 29, everyone using Threads in Turkey will receive a notification about the impending closure, and they will be given a choice to either delete or deactivate their profile. The latter of these options means a user's profile can be resurrected when and if Threads is available in the country again. "We disagree with the interim order, we believe we are in compliance with all Turkish legal requirements, and we will appeal," Meta wrote in the blog post today. "The TCA's interim order leaves us with no choice but to temporarily shut down Threads in Turkiye. We will continue to constructively engage with the TCA and hope to bring Threads back to people in Turkiye as quickly as possible."

Did they happily crack down on dissidents

[rsilvergun]

The way x.com did? I guess they kind of had to otherwise they would have had to exit the country. I do think it's funny that they pull out of the country for not being allowed to violate privacy across their various companies but not for selling out the civilians in those countries. Suppose I shouldn't expect anything less from a corporation

And nothing of value was lost in Turkey

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Also, it's Türkiye. Because Türkiye saw how well the rebranding worked out for Myanmar and decided it wanted nothing to do with dumb flightless birds from now on.

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[KiloByte]

Well, the Lithuanian word for turkey is "kalakutas", which in Polish means "shit and dick". Because the word dates to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, I don't believe this is a coincidence. Perhaps it'd make a more accurate brand for the current Turkish dictatorship?

Let's suggest similar names for other country rebrandings, such as Birma, Persia, or Muscovy.

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[ChunderDownunder]

C'mon, man. It's metal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

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[thegarbz]

In Meta's eyes "delete" means the exactly same as "deactivate." i.e.: so long as you have access to the last-used email address and/or 2FA device registered against an account there's absolutely nothing stopping you from starting up account again that was "deleted" years ago.

No it doesn't. They know the difference. They are also quite clear and spell it out not just in plain english but all other languages too, that when you delete an account the data will only be deleted after 90 days. They don't delete the link between your username and your email address to prevent people impersonating you after you delete your account.

You can recover your account within 90 days. After 90 days if you attempt to recover the account it'll be yours again but it'll be blank.