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

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by boramalper@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 27 points 6 days 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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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 42 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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?

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days 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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[–] AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz 22 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (7 children)

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

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago (7 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.

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[–] TON618@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days 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.

[–] j4yt33@feddit.org 35 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And so it begins

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[–] oliver@lemmy.neuralwhisper.eu 17 points 5 days ago

And so it begins...

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is anyone surprised?

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 17 points 5 days ago

Just yesterday I saw a post on lemmy that said that turkish xitter users were migrating to bluesky. Didn't bother opening to see the comments or read it. Seeing this now, all I can think is "well, what did they expect?"

[–] SrEstegosaurio@mstdn.social 14 points 5 days ago

@boramalper What a surprise. /s

Don't bet on shitty protocolos backed by corpos, does not end well.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That didn't take long

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[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What the fuck? Is bsky hosted there? Why do they fucking care?

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[–] thuhtoosan@programming.dev 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Should I pretend to be surprised? 🙀 lol

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