With Clinton poised to win the election, violent conflicts will only get worse in the islamic world. More refugees will come to Europe, making the situation unsustainable. This is unstoppable now.
It's not clear to me, but I assumed that that only happened if you tapped on a "search for gifs" button, which is something that can happen accidentally, but... that's unlikely.
Hmm... he mentions the Giphy thing at the beginning of the article, then never again.
The Giphy mention seemed really dangerous to me. Now I don't use Signal but I imagine it's 1) optional and 2) requests are proxified/anonimised through an intermediary (the Signal servers in this case). And why is this dangerous? Because this "don't build cool stuff on this serious app" is what makes people not use the app. It's creating boring, dull apps what stops them from becoming mainstream successes. If we are trying to make the public using secure apps because we believe in privacy, we have to make them appealing.
This is similar to the case of how nobody uses PGP because how horribly bad it is, UX-wise.
That said the rest of points he brings up are good. I just didn't like the Giphy mention, especially taking into account he didn't say anything else about it, he just brought it up.
I wonder how many people there agree with such blocks, etc.
I am a crypto-fascist myself, and I can understand and respect this kind of stuff when we are talking about maintaining order of the law, and I also imagine that a big % of Turkey (maybe even double digit) want this.
We simply have a different culture here, where freedom > *. They are very very different there, and making judgements (such as "nobody would ever want twitter to be blocked") can be very wrong.