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.
What was the post
Probably said something bad about their current dictator.
Or maby he was selling some grass
He isn’t a dictator, he actually survived a military coup, and unlike his nationalist opponents he has welcomed refugees.
he is a dictator. stop shittin yourself. if you make your relatives head of the baninking system you are a dictator. a shitty one too as it seems from the cost of living in istanbul. cant mention the genocides against armenians or kurds. total fail in cyprus. man what a loser.
No, that’s nepotism. He wins elections and is popular.
If your criteria is failing to admit to genocides, then every Western “democracy” is a dictatorship, except perhaps Ireland.
Jailing opposition leader and biggest rival before the election, on made up charges, is not compatible with “elections” and more with dictatorship.
Dictators do nepotism. Stop lying. Stop propagandizing.
The people who committed the Armenian genocide were secularist nationalists acting during a time of Ottoman weakness.
Can I do that too as a german? Our genocide was a weakness of vienna-afficinados acting during a time of german weakness. LOL. @PanArab is a Nazi pig.
He’s an authoritarian who silences dissent, and the coup has a bunch of questionable bits.
as a turkish citizen, he is a fucking dictator. The day will come when he will be held accountable for all his crimes.
Probably, but it could also have been incredibly racist and whats worse.
This guy really needs to show what he posted. Why hide that.
Their account is still available outside of Turkey so check it out for yourself: https://bsky.app/profile/carekavga.bsky.social
10 posts only, most of which are after their account got censored, so just a couple introductory posts before that’s all. I suspect the government requested its takedown because the account belonged to a politically active person that was influential enough to cause worry.
Yeah. Fascist criminals like Yaxley-Lennon in the UK cry about their free speech, and when you look at the cases it’s stuff like trying to intimidate juries, or inciting crowds to set fire to buildings containing asylum seekers.
How shocking, Mastodon remains the best option
It always was. The “problem” is that there’s not 10% of what you can find on Bluesky (well, at least for my interests), Sandy. It’s less worse than say, Peertube vs YouTube but still, last time I tried to dig I didn’t find much. i still use it tho, but I’m following like 3 accounts is a hundred on BS. I’ll try and dig a bit more again today.
A lack of any real recommendations kinda does Mastodon in, in my opinion
Though it’s a great place to follow your favourites from elsewhere, but this will never really lead to it recommending ‘similar’ stuff
Maybe it’s possible to build something like recommendations into Mastodon? I wouldn’t know. Wouldn’t be official though.
Maybe we could have a Lemmy community specifically for this? List out your favourite creators in Mastodon, maybe a few will stick out.
I’ve been on the fence about joining Bluesky but I think I am not going to bother.
https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lmvrdmkdnc2d
Censorship requests from the Turkish government are only being applied in the official bluesky app. Third-party apps continue to show censored posts. Feels like that might be relevant
Is Bluesky the next X ??? Kissing the ring of authoritarian leaders?
What the fuck? Is bsky hosted there? Why do they fucking care?
How much you wanna bet the trump regime will force them to start removing people too ?
The odds are 1000:0 that they won’t, and I still wouldn’t take that bet.
That didn’t take long
Clear from the beginning.
I can’t believe it! Someone who chose to use a centralized platform instead of Nostr was banned?! It’s so shocking!
Who could’ve ever predicted this?!?
I will share the same shock the day I see that 16 out of 15 posts on Nostr are not related to Bitcoin or using Nostr.
Oh, so NOSTR is not hated here anymore. Good Anakin good.
Seriously, an amazingly successful platform.
People always want to try subtler and subtler tech, and NOSTR’s dumb architecture with relays is something that could only be conceived by people not that fond of tech brilliance. And that’s good and right! And if those people are cryptobros, then so be it, they found the right way and this is what matters.
They had a task one can’t solve with classic P2P, because mobile devices and energy consumption and uptime. They solved it the old-fashioned way which is still right, kinda like Usenet, except reducing news servers to asynchronous relays.
NOSTR already has some standard extensions for moderated communities, I’m just not sure if there are any clients supporting that.
Jack Dorsey earning those libertarian bona fides.
But it’s a decentralized service! /s
How do we know the person behind this account was not selling grass?
Can Turkey ask for any account/post to be banned regardless of where a post was written? For example, if I were to register than and called Erdogan a dictator who suppresses the Turks by breaking down the media and justice system and 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.
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.
Wow, all the bsky lovers are now facing the reality. None of the corpos have user’s interest in mind. They only care about numbers: number of active users’ data that they can sell to the highest bidder.
