Turkey has imposed an advertising ban on Twitter for violating a controversial social media law. The ban also affects Twitter’s live video app Periscope and the online Pinterest bulletin board, according to a decision published in the Official Journal on Tuesday.

A law passed in July obliges providers of foreign platforms with more than one million Turkish users daily to open branches in Turkey with a Turkish citizen as their representative. Representation by a legal person is also possible. If no representative is registered, penalties will be gradually imposed up to a reduction in bandwidth. This means that the pages can be made virtually unusable. Activists and human rights activists accuse the government of trying to enforce censorship.

“Immediately” appoint a representative The deputy traffic officer and Infrastructure Minister Ömer Fatih Sayan wrote on Twitter that it is hoped that Pinterest and Twitter will take the necessary steps “immediately”. The last thing you want is to reduce the bandwidth for social networks that do not fulfill their obligation.

Back in December, Turkey had Twitter and others Fined networks, including Facebook and Youtube. Youtube, Facebook and other providers have now announced that they want to appoint a representative in Turkey.

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