Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government
Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government
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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If only there was a decentralised alternative, that was more or less immune to this… LOL
I'm afraid a federated micro-blogging website using ActivityPub doesn't/can't exist ;_;
/s?
There’s Mastodon and a ton of others.
It's old internet sarcasm, I seent it many times in my life. Yeah, pretty sure it was harmless satire :) the emoticon at the end is a dead giveaway maybe—that there looks like a millennial or zillenial calling card
I’m just used to the “/s” for when something is written sarcastically.
Yeah that's new 2014+ Reddit technology, back in the early days of the internet sarcasm was a lot harder to detect and you were expected to figure it out with context haha
lots of us don't know people expect /s and still try to be sarcastic without /s
instead we used clues like emojis to denote it's not serious like "lol" or "haha" when it's sarcastic and funny or ;-; or T-T when it's sarcasm and expressing frustration
I will be dead in the cold cold ground before I ever type "/s"
Same, but I feel like a steward of the web, I've been using it for so long lol
Fun fact, we didn't use to need that. Which is why millennials typically don't use /s outside Reddit. 90's and early 2000s forum culture required everyone to use common sense, a concept now entirely ethereal to zoomers. Back in my day...
Damn...I've been discovered
How would decentralized alternatives be immune to this?
Bluesky doesn’t work if the IP gets blocked in Turkey, but with Mastodon, you would have to ban every single IP from every Mastodon instance and potentially all other IPs on the Fediverse.
Let’s say Turkey blocks mastodon.social. Now people in Turkey can’t access Mastodon.social under normal circumstances, but they can still access fosstodon.org, mstdn.social etc. and access the content from Mastodon.social through those other sites.
Only issue could be media uploaded to Mastodon.social, that’s blocked, unless it has been cached by the website you use.
Thought this way yes.
I misread and saw that it was some kind of DMCA, and an instance owner would probably not want to play around with that. Not respecting local laws on specific things is not likely to have serious repercussions
It's pretty trivial for them to block all major instances though, or even all instances federated with all major instances
That would just be an endless game of whack-a-mole given just how many instances there are, and how easy it is to just set up another instance immediately.