Turkish President Abdullah Gül took a big Twitter hit after signing a controversial Internet law.
Gül lost a whopping 80,000 followers after tweeting on Tuesday that he signed a controversial bill that tightens the government’s control over the internet, according to Agence France-Presse. Before signing the bill Gül was considered the best hope for stopping the bill, according to Jenna Krajeski in a blog post at The New Yorker.
The bill allows the Turkish government to block websites without having to first get a court order. It also mandates that Internet service providers keep “individual data” for as much as two years, according to The New Yorker.
According to AFP the Turkish government is also proposing that the Telecommunications Communications Presidency, which can make Internet service providers block certain internet pages under the new law, must first inform a judge about any decision to block a website.
Gül may have lost 80,000 followers but he still has 4.3 million.
