Did Bluesky have to censor Turkish political commenters?
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Did Bluesky have to censor Turkish political commenters?
Of course they did. Any centralized social network works this way and has this vulnerability.
They will have to do it with your political posts too, when the US starts asking them to do it.
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Did Bluesky have to censor Turkish political commenters?
Of course they did. Any centralized social network works this way and has this vulnerability.
They will have to do it with your political posts too, when the US starts asking them to do it.
Note I did not say "if"
I said "when"
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Did Bluesky have to censor Turkish political commenters?
Of course they did. Any centralized social network works this way and has this vulnerability.
They will have to do it with your political posts too, when the US starts asking them to do it.
@cwebber Arguably if they aren't concerned about business interests in Turkey, and at the worst case... don't plan to have any staff ever visit Turkey where they could be arrested... they certainly don't *have* to.
But it certainly feels like they got a very eager head start into obeying authoritarians way earlier than they likely would be truly compelled to in any meaningful way.
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C cwebber@social.coop shared this topic
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@cwebber Arguably if they aren't concerned about business interests in Turkey, and at the worst case... don't plan to have any staff ever visit Turkey where they could be arrested... they certainly don't *have* to.
But it certainly feels like they got a very eager head start into obeying authoritarians way earlier than they likely would be truly compelled to in any meaningful way.
@ocdtrekkie It's probably true that they didn't have to here. Though then the main instance would be blocked in Turkey.
They certainly will have to if it comes to a "western" government telling them to. It's the trajectory space of the self-imposed design constraints they have.
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Did Bluesky have to censor Turkish political commenters?
Of course they did. Any centralized social network works this way and has this vulnerability.
They will have to do it with your political posts too, when the US starts asking them to do it.
I also said this on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/dustyweb.bsky.social/post/3lmyj6fk5hs2i -
@cwebber Arguably if they aren't concerned about business interests in Turkey, and at the worst case... don't plan to have any staff ever visit Turkey where they could be arrested... they certainly don't *have* to.
But it certainly feels like they got a very eager head start into obeying authoritarians way earlier than they likely would be truly compelled to in any meaningful way.
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@ocdtrekkie @cwebber yeah this was a business decision, not a legal requirement.
The sense in which they had to is on the understanding that they follow a lot of Silicon Valley precepts.
@davey_cakes @ocdtrekkie Note that I didn't say it was a legal requirement for them to continue operating as a US based organization (presently, anyway)
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Did Bluesky have to censor Turkish political commenters?
Of course they did. Any centralized social network works this way and has this vulnerability.
They will have to do it with your political posts too, when the US starts asking them to do it.
@cwebber hundreds of thousands of Turkish protesters migrated from X to Bsky just for such disappointment. We trusted ex-twitter policies, remembering how Twitter resisted the demands of the Turkish state back then.
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Did Bluesky have to censor Turkish political commenters?
Of course they did. Any centralized social network works this way and has this vulnerability.
They will have to do it with your political posts too, when the US starts asking them to do it.
@cwebber@social.coop If they capitulate to Turkish dictators, of course they would capitulate to Trumps and co.
It's easier to resist commands from Turkish government than US gov. If they can't even do that what can others expect?
