‘The internet’s sewer’: why Turkey blocked its most popular social site

Chaotic free speech on Ekşi Sözlük finally proved too much after devastating earthquakes hit countryLaunched on the eve of the millennium, Turkey’s most popular homegrown social media website has weathered lawsuits, criticism from the highest levels of government and even death threats directed at one of its founders. A simple editable online dictionary turned national obsession, Ekşi Sözlük has for more than two decades spurred its own biting form of social s