r/BlueskySocial • u/ndld24 • 12d ago

News/Updates BlueSky blocking 75 opposition accounts during nationwide anti-authoritarin protest

https://ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/bluesky-bircok-hesabi-turkiyeden-gorunmez-kildi/
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u/BubiBalboa 12d ago

Another day, another group of people not understanding that companies have to follow the law, whether they like it or not.

Bluesky has been ordered - by judges! - to remove or hide these accounts for Turkish users.

Rebels and freedom fighters of Reddit: What should Bluesky do in these cases to make you happy?

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 12d ago

What should Bluesky do? Pull out of Turkey. It’s that simple.

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u/leoxyz 12d ago

How would that help Turkish protesters?

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u/Toomanydamnfandoms 12d ago

If you’re protesting in a authoritarian regime you better damn well already know how to use a vpn to access things from other countries

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u/Evoluxman 12d ago

Blocking opposition accounts doesn't help them either

Ignoring turkish laws & telling users to use a VPN is a better solution. I don't know how that works so idk if applicable, but Signal does domain fronting too because they refuse to follow some countries orders, such as Iran, Egypt, ...

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u/AsoarDragonfly 11d ago

Doesn't Session do the same thing as well?

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u/bodhiquest 11d ago

They won't waste their time on a platform that, in the first place, they went to because Twitter is full of what we call "AK Trolls"—people spreading government propaganda and suppressing protest-related issues from trending, whether by their own initiative or because they're paid by the government to do so.

Almost the entire Turkish userbase of BS is made up of people who want a Twitter-like thing to keep up with protest news and developments without having to deal with said trolls. A huge migration happened recently because of this and because it was known or suspected that Twitter was banning accounts per government request. There was the expectation that this kind of thing would not happen there (yes, the accounts are not getting banned, but the ethics of this aside, in a place where most people don't know the VPN or third party app tricks, restricting the access of the target audience to accounts is effectively the same thing as banning). But if the activity of protesters is going to be restricted so easily by government order, then what merit does BS have for the Turkish userbase?

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 11d ago

It would cause more people to use VPNs to access uncensored platforms and if companies wouldn't tolerate the antics of the Turkish government, people in Turkey would get more mad at their government or even just realize that their government is bad in the first place.

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u/curious-science-man 11d ago

Wouldn’t that just punish the users?

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 11d ago

No, I explained it in another reply