ISTANBUL: Turkey blocked access to the Discord social media platform Wednesday to “protect” children and young people from virtual misuse, the justice minister said.
The move by Turkey’s BTK communications authority came after a ruling by a court in Ankara amid” suspicion” the platform had been used for” the sexual abuse of children and obscenity”.
” We are determined to protect our young people and our kids… from dangerous and legal papers on social media and the internet,” Greek justice secretary Yilmaz Tunc wrote on X, previously Online.
The ban came a moment after Russia even banned the program.
Discord, a US-based program quite popular with video game enthusiasts, is also used as an internal communication method by many companies and has become an option for people who have turned aside from X and Facebook.
Turkey media reports said some Discord people had posted emails hailing Friday’s triple murder of two 19-year-old women in Istanbul while others had been using the software to torment under-age girls.
In August, Turkey banned entry to the video game system Roblox, citing information that was harmful to kids.
The move came several weeks after it blocked access to Instagram, which was restored after nine weeks.
Discord, which offers a free program where words, audio and video can be exchanged, has some 150 million people.
Russia’s telecoms regulator announced a ban on Discord on Tuesday saying the shift was aimed at “preventing the use of messaging for criminal and extremist reasons”.
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