Turkey determined to control social media platforms, Erdogan says
In a dictatorship, cracking down on social media is a no brainer.  But I think social media undermines democracies as well.<p>Social media vastly amplifies loud minorities.  Democracy assumes that the majority of people are reasonable, so majority rule will also be reasonable.  Loud minorities undermine majority rule.  Loud minorities have always existed,  but social media is now amplifying them to the point of obscuring what the majority of the country actually wants.  This is why we can have an election outcome that no one in the media predicted.<p>Add to that the fact that social media is highly game-able and scalable, and you have small groups of people working against the majority of the country.<p>Social media is also a prime playground for international enemies.<p>In that light, I'm moving away from the idea that all social media should be allowed, and seeing actions like this as something worth exploring.  I hate imposing restrictions, but social media is a strange and unbelievably influential paradigm, which needs to be handled "like a weapon instead of some toy".