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.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      143·
      3 days ago

      I sort of feel like that’s not really relevant. How would being decentralised make any difference, the government would just go after the server owners regardless of who they are. If the server owners didn’t honour the takedown requests turkey would just ban the server IP and no one would be able to access.

      Federation isn’t a solution to every problem

      • ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        If it was truly decentralized it would be like Bitcoin that has not been brought down by any government or organization yet they sure have tried.

      • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        But Turkey blocking acces to certain content is not the same as removing the content (which is what Bluesky does when they honour a request).

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      81·
      3 days ago

      I know it sounds insane but I swear to god BlueSky has astroturfing accounts on Lemmy. Every conversation (including yours here) about BlueSky is met with countless Sealions either saying it “will be federated soon” or asking “Why does federation matter?”

    • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
      101·
      4 days ago

      The content is still accessible, just not via the official Bluesky servers from that region, with content addressing and signatures you can even be certain that mirror sites haven’t modified any content.

          • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
            31·
            3 days ago

            Which is not part of Bluesky, only proving the point having a central system controlling the data makes the data vulnerable.

            • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Sorry what, an example of a 3rd party service proving 3rd party mirrors exists proves it’s vulnerable to what? It’s content addressed and as open as it gets, it’s literally designed to survive if the company goes down

              • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
                11·
                2 days ago

                Yes, but in comparison to a federation only the information will survive because it was copied out of the central system, but the system will fail as soon as the company folds. I mean the reason the fact that you need a 3rd party mirror to save the data proves the flaws of the 1st party. This instance for example doesn’t need to be mirrored because it is built on a foundation that already has redundancy built in.

    • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      The only thing i did was follow anime artists(same popular ones i follow on twitter that started switching to bsky)and block weird accounts that had furry/beastalility(idk why they kept showing up) coz i selected the art tag as interest . but after a few weeks of banning furry shit my account got banned… No reason why . but maybe an admin/staff saw i blocked them and retaliated ? This was last year when bsky was new. Fuck it. At least mastodon is still used