There is/was an active disinformation campaign on Twitter attempting to link the earthquake to Türkiye denying Nato expansion. The ridiculous conspiracy theory is that the US used a HAARP system to cause the earthquake in retaliation.
Not saying that's the reason for the ban, but twitter is not solely a force for good here.
That's annoying. HAARP is essentially just a steerable RF beam that heats the ionosphere for RF propagation research, or can be used to bounce RF off of the moon. Neither have any effects on fault line stress or slippage that I am aware of.
So herein lies the point of all this.
People who know its bullshit, know its bullshit, and can tell other people (who don't know) that it is bullshit.
It should not be up to any government or company to use force or coercion to meter any idea or speech unless it is, on the rarest of occasion, illegal.
Our civilization is more connected than ever before. We have access to untold volumes of knowledge. Greater than any library in history. If he were alive today, Aristarchus of Samothrace, the 6th head librarian of the Library of Alexandria, would give his left nut for just 10 minutes on the internet.
We built a vast and wonderful civilization that is almost to the star-faring stage, and we did it without government censors or censorship by ideologues. The very notion of some bureaucrat, state actor, or crybully mod deciding what you should think or read insults the collective intelligence and struggle for absolute truth from the last 2500 years of human history.
Well, HAARP directs RF energy skyward using an array of antennas for research and isn't exactly a secret.
The DESTINY project in the movie was a secret and it sucked energy up from the entire grid and somehow shot it to the center of the planet in an attempt to ...trigger earthquakes?
How they were going to aim DESTINY is lost to plot holes.
Maybe the US used mind control to force (over several decades) Turkish contractors to build house-of-cards on top of a major tectonic plate fracture line?
But indeed our comms/social channels are just a mess - that we pay for dearly when real suffering hits us.
Such a disinformation campaign (blaming America) is probably what Erdogan would rather support, because then he can deflect and say "Don't blame me for the deaths, it's those damn Americans with their alien-tech!".
Not that the quake is his fault anyway, but to expand on that, he could claim "Trust me, my government tried to build quake-proof buildings, but their alien-tech is even more powerful!"
That was not the only conspiracy theory going around. The other one was that Russia had detonated a nuclear bomb underground to cause the Earthquake, in retaliation for Syria/Ukraine support or something!
Not saying that's the reason for the ban, but twitter is not solely a force for good here.