Turkish Prime Minister: Facebook Is 'Ugly Technology'

Turkey nearly blocked access to Facebook this fall, which makes Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trash talk about the site this week -- well, interesting.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a Facebook page with 784,244 fans, but apparently that didn’t stop the ruler from condemned the site during an election rally for his political party.

The premier reportedly said, “Pages on Facebook are ugly and horrible.”

Anyway, Erdogan’s beef with Facebook concerns what he considers “immoral” content published for all to see.

He also lashed out against email in the same speech, refuting accusations by the leader of the opposing political party.

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