Wikipedia cofounder slams Elon Musk for caving to Turkey's government and censoring tweets, says Wikipedia fought similar demands and won
"The Turkish government asked Twitter to censor its opponents right before an election and @elonmusk complied," Bloomberg columnist Matt YglesiasIn response, Musk tweeted:"Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias? The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets.
Which one do you want?"Sunday that Wikipedia"stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan."Wales was referring in his tweet to a ban Wikipedia previously faced from Turkey's government.
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