Grok faces four years in prison for ‘insulting’ Turkey’s PM Erdogan

Grok has been blocked in Turkey for allegedly insulting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The prosecutor’s office is investigating because insulting the president is a criminal offense in Turkey – up to four years in prison.

Even if you are an algorithm.

Erdoğan is currently the 25th Prime Minister of Turkey.

The Turkish dictator has held office from 2003 to 2014, and has been the 12th President of Turkey since 2014.

SOURCE: Visegrád 24

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John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.