Use of any third party client gets around the mandatory use of the local moderation service.
When you build a system that allows central control and censorship then the state will use those affordances if they feel the need. Bluesky’s blocked some Turkish accounts by order of the Turkish government.
The user DID keys are still active but their associated domain name / user names are not and the identities at blocked by bluesky’s moderation system that Turkish users can’t opt out of.
https://bsky.app/profile/nekorug.moe/post/3lmwgtwfggs2e
To escape this censorship you need to both use a Bluesky client that doesn’t opt in to the company’s obligatory moderation and also some relay and appviews which refuse to comply with Turkish censorship orders.
Discussion
Only https://deer.social seems to let you opt out of the company moderation so far.
From what I can tell, the official client is the *only* one that enforces local moderation services. Presumably it’s as a way to place nice with foreign governments and stay in app stores, as they must realize how easy it is to circumvent.
yeah it is!
on the official Bluesky app, they collect your country location data (just from IP, not GPS or anything) and then use that to apply certain labels for moderation, but any other app could choose to bypass this.
interesting ://
