Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg commented on Turkish defamation laws that aim at protecting modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk calling it an example of the "different legal and cultural environments" that the world’s largest social network has to take into consideration, Hurriyet reports.
"Every country has laws limiting certain expression, and these are often shaped by culture and history. For example, Holocaust denial is prohibited in Germany. Content that defames Ataturk is illegal in Turkey. Governments sometimes order us to remove content they believe is illegal but that doesn’t violate our community standards. We provide information about these orders in our Global Government Requests Report," noted Zuckerberg.
According to the report released on March 16, Turkey is second in the world in terms of the amount of content restricted on Facebook due to government requests, following India, Hurriyet reports.