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Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lmuz3nr62k26

Email from Bluesky in the screenshot:

Hi there,

We are writing to inform you that we have received a formal request from a legal authority in Turkey regarding the removal of your account associated with the following handle (@carekavga.bsky.social) on Bluesky.

The legal authority has claimed that this content violates local laws in Turkey. As a result, we are required to review the request in accordance with local regulations and Bluesky's policies.

Following a thorough review, we have determined that the content in question violates local laws in Turkey, as outlined in the legal request. In compliance with these legal provisions, we have restricted access to your account for users.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

I've been on the fence about joining Bluesky but I think I am not going to bother.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The relevant question here is if you are in Turkey because if you aren't this is a much bigger deal than if you are.

Also, does "restricted access to your account for users" mean for all users or just for those in Turkey?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Even if it’s a Turkey-specific restriction for users based in the country, it nonetheless shows that Bluesky is willing to comply with government requests.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

The account is still up and viewable for me. US.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And so it begins

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Watching how quickly all these companies crumble, it really is astonishing the Obama and Clinton didn't take on Fox News for all it's bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Corpos aren't afraid of the Democrats. They own them.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because they are a company and a board of ethical leaders to ensure it doesn't turn to shit is no guarantee it doesn't turn to shit. BlueSky is something a corporate mindset person creates because that's the only thing they know. Have a problem to solve? Needs company + board.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How much you wanna bet the trump regime will force them to start removing people too ?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I believe there are laws in the EU that would be violated by many rightwing posts (such as glorifying nazis in Germany). The litmus test would be if a complaint about these violations would cause an account to be banned.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

This seems like a good place to put this meme I made a couple months ago

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

For some reason people expect things from Bluesky but people forget Bluesky is basicly just new Twitter. There's really no reason to expect "better" from this new platform.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (7 children)

What's the point of Bluesky if they're just going to bow before authoritarianism?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

There isn’t one as far as I’m concerned. People moved from one corpo social media platform to another corpo social media platform thinking that the person running the former platform was the problem, when the entire model is designed to prioritise profit over human expression.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is anyone surprised?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Can Turkey ask for any account/post to be banned regardless of where a post was written? For example, if I were to register there and called Erdogan a dictator who suppresses the Turks by breaking down the media and justice system and he is taking political prisoners; could he then ask BlueSky to get my account removed because i'm breaking a law in Turkey even though I am not in Turkey? That sounds totally crazy. Like from now on you can make laws on your citizens, your lands and all of the internet? What the fu. e: typo

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That didn't take long

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

From the wording, it looks like they're just going to georestrict their content to places that are not Turkey.

Far from a problem, unless of course, your primary following is from Turkey; or that's where you live.

I don't blame bluesky here, they operate internationally, and they have to obey the laws of the locations they operate in. Personally I'm wondering what kind of Internet posts are restricted in Turkey? Who has laws to say you can, or cannot say things on the Internet? Besides... I guess, China, and obviously illegal things like CP....

Were they posting CP?

IDK, I've never used bluesky. I barely used xitter, back when it was relevant, if I were to use anything as a replacement it would be Mastodon.

Anyways.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You might consider reading some news about what is happening in Turkey right now or the last days/weeks/years.

Some Keywords that might help: Erdogan, autocracy, opposition, major of Istanbul, imprisoned journalists, ...

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