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

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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] 6 points 2 days ago

I'm not even surprised lol. Just another reason why communities like Lemmy and forums are better than any social media platform. Man I hope the Fediverse keeps growing, the more people that see through this bs and jump ship and find us over here in the Fediverse the better.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i don't get why this is shocking; if you do business in a country you have to follow local laws.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly at this point I want to host a distributed Lemmy instance and completely ignore all country laws in favor of complete and absolute freedom of speech.

It might sound extreme, but pretty sure at this point I'd be willing to die for it given the state of global politics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, man. I don't think Kiddie Pornhub is a good idea.

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

Who the fuck said anything about porn of any kind? People always use protecting kids as a way to censor the Internet and it's almost always in bad faith.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You did.

completely ignore all country laws in favor of complete and absolute freedom of speech.

If you didn't realize what you said, hopefully you'll rethink your goals to include the obvious end results. I suppose you could disallow images of you're not serious about "complete freedom", then you just have NeoNazis instead of pedophiles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your comment is so mired in ignorance, to think you would oppose free speech over how it would be abused and ignore the net positive is exactly how we're losing freedoms each and every day.

People like you are ruining the world while telling people you're fixing it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When someone says they want to create a haven for NeoNazis and pedophiles, I just want to check in and see if they've thought things through. It's hilarious how you're calling me names for pointing out the obious problem instead of trying to come up with any way to mitigate the harm.

I don't think you'll be doing enough good to make a net positive from your child pornography and Nazi haven. Have fun though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You are the only one talking about Nazis and Porn. Your argument reeks of strawman, attacking the concept for something it isn't even.

You know who it does protect? Minorities, freedom fighters, people trying to get in and out of bad situations with fascist governments and restrictions on what they can say and who they can speak out against.

People like you, you specifically, you are exactly the problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Where is bluesky based? As far as I know you have to follow the laws of where you are based. Otherwisse we'd have to follow the lowest common denominator, like north korea, or afghanistan or the like

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter all that much, if your service can be accessed in a country, you have to bend to their rules, or get blocked, and Turkish users will no longer be able to access Bluesky.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

OK, so let them block you. What the fuck is that gonna do? A country wants to get pissy, let them get pissy. And while they're getting pissy, give the people who live there directions on how to get a VPN and bypass their government and its laws.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it doesn't matter where you're based; if you're operating in a country, you follow the laws of that country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Or you play a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities in that country as they try to block access to your servers. Depending on your moral values this might be preferable to blindly following the laws of authoritarian regimes.

It's really the country you're based in that matters the most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

If you want your site reachable that's fine, but if you want to operate as a legal business with a local operation and all that entails, you need to follow local laws.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is Bluesky the next X ??? Kissing the ring of authoritarian leaders?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Remove one Turk from the service or remove the entire service from Turkey?

Essentially the question Bluesky executives had to make here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

they all exist in the same world and they will all need to figure out how to make money sooner or later

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