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.
i don't get why this is shocking; if you do business in a country you have to follow local laws.
Honestly at this point I want to host a distributed Lemmy instance and completely ignore all country laws in favor of complete and absolute freedom of speech.
It might sound extreme, but pretty sure at this point I'd be willing to die for it given the state of global politics.
Sorry, man. I don't think Kiddie Pornhub is a good idea.
Who the fuck said anything about porn of any kind? People always use protecting kids as a way to censor the Internet and it's almost always in bad faith.
You did.
If you didn't realize what you said, hopefully you'll rethink your goals to include the obvious end results. I suppose you could disallow images of you're not serious about "complete freedom", then you just have NeoNazis instead of pedophiles.
Your comment is so mired in ignorance, to think you would oppose free speech over how it would be abused and ignore the net positive is exactly how we're losing freedoms each and every day.
People like you are ruining the world while telling people you're fixing it.
When someone says they want to create a haven for NeoNazis and pedophiles, I just want to check in and see if they've thought things through. It's hilarious how you're calling me names for pointing out the obious problem instead of trying to come up with any way to mitigate the harm.
I don't think you'll be doing enough good to make a net positive from your child pornography and Nazi haven. Have fun though.
You are the only one talking about Nazis and Porn. Your argument reeks of strawman, attacking the concept for something it isn't even.
You know who it does protect? Minorities, freedom fighters, people trying to get in and out of bad situations with fascist governments and restrictions on what they can say and who they can speak out against.
People like you, you specifically, you are exactly the problem.
I'm sorry you haven't seen every other "haven for free speech" turn into a haven for NeoNazis and pedophiles. Pardon me for actually understanding how things work, and remembering Reddit, Voat, the Chans, etc. it's funny you're acting like bringing up how long it took to get rid of /r/Jailbait is a "strawman".
Call me the problem after you say how you're going to stop pedophiles from trading CSAM on your platform, not before.
And I've watched the things you're talking about be used to propose legislation against free speech, and the path you want to take is more slippery than the slipperiest slope imaginable.
Censorship gains traction under the guise of reasonable sounding proposals and always leads to misuse. I have no doubt you have good intentions at heart, but I super promise other people don't and they will use any legislation available as a way to curtail dissent, treason, and sedition.
I promise we're better off with havens for free speech.
Where is bluesky based? As far as I know you have to follow the laws of where you are based. Otherwisse we'd have to follow the lowest common denominator, like north korea, or afghanistan or the like
it doesn't matter where you're based; if you're operating in a country, you follow the laws of that country.
Or you play a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities in that country as they try to block access to your servers. Depending on your moral values this might be preferable to blindly following the laws of authoritarian regimes.
It's really the country you're based in that matters the most.
It doesn't matter all that much, if your service can be accessed in a country, you have to bend to their rules, or get blocked, and Turkish users will no longer be able to access Bluesky.
OK, so let them block you. What the fuck is that gonna do? A country wants to get pissy, let them get pissy. And while they're getting pissy, give the people who live there directions on how to get a VPN and bypass their government and its laws.
If you want your site reachable that's fine, but if you want to operate as a legal business with a local operation and all that entails, you need to follow local laws.