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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 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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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is anyone surprised?

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That didn't take long

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Clear from the beginning.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 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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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago (7 children)

As a result, we are required to review the request in accordance with local regulations and Bluesky's policies.

Why the fuck is BlueSky, an American company, required to comply with Turkish demands...?

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Because they display (or even host, potentially) content that's "illegal" in Turkey.

What they should probably be doing is just hiding said content from users in Turkey...and encouraging users in Turkey to use VPNs, lol

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week 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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[–] oliver@lemmy.neuralwhisper.eu 17 points 1 week ago

And so it begins...

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 17 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

@boramalper What a surprise. /s

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

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How shocking, Mastodon remains the best option

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

Should I pretend to be surprised? 🙀 lol

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

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

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