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   Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 04:39:33 JST Joe Ortiz

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   @docpop Not that I known but I'm sure governments are going to give the ol' college try on fedi sooner than we expect, especially bigger instances like .social for example are going to be big targets.

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     Doctor M. Popular (docpop@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 04:39:34 JST Doctor M. Popular

     Verified reports that #Bluesky is blocking some users in #Turkey as requested by the Turkish government. Reported here https://www.sonmuhur.com/blueskyda-ilk-sansur-turkiyede-ilk-kez-bir-hesabin-engellendigi-ortaya-cikti and explained a little More details on this thread https://mastodon.social/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/114345157696148021

     Question for my fedi friends: what happens here if a government makes these demands on the fediverse? I'm guessing it would be up to each server admin if they chose to follow those government requests, right? Have we seen anything like this happen on Mastodon servers yet?