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   Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 15:48:32 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

   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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     Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 15:49:19 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

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     Note I did not say "if"

     I said "when"

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     ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 15:53:46 JST ocdtrekkie

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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.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 15:58:08 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

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     • ocdtrekkie

     @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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     Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 15:59:04 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

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     I also said this on Bluesky :P https://bsky.app/profile/dustyweb.bsky.social/post/3lmyj6fk5hs2i

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     Sayé (saye_cy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 19:56:00 JST Sayé

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     @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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     Orca? | ??️‍⚧️ (orca@nya.one)'s status on Friday, 18-Apr-2025 01:57:38 JST Orca? | ??️‍⚧️

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     @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?