I think they are specifically ok with temporary visa holders getting removed for saying "death to america" or some such equivalent.
Banning people en masse online for speech is not a MAGA thing though. Don't get me wrong, you'll find many people now who will break their own principles to certain degrees because their is a vicious cycle of revenge going on now. Love the state? Yes and no. Love the police? Yes and no. Love the war machine? Doubt it. As for your brown people thing, I dont really know...... if you wanna see real racism, go to a brown country. They have strong culture and borders and they arent willing to even try the multicultural experiment.
anti-israel protesters are the new anti-vaxers. Systemically silenced through influence
yeh they arent comparable. Its clear that the regular leftist masses are more likely to want to delete someone off the internet for opinions they don't like. What you highlighted was the establishment shutting down anti-israel speech. MAGAs mostly care when it strays into anti-american rhetoric, which is understandable because it is america afterall.
so a jewish family runs capital of panama. Wonderful
Government censorship has come to #Bluesky.
LATEST:
On demands from the Turkish government, Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts per a report from a Turkish NGO.
DETAIL:
Accounts are restricted for users in Turkey.
Accounts aren't banned from Bluesky's AT Protocol relays etc, but access is moderated at the official client level through geography-specific labels.
WORKAROUNDS?
Realistically impacted accounts are no longer visible to the majority of Bluesky users (most aren't on 3rd party clients) in Turkey.
However, since 3rd party client apps for the AT Protocol aren't forced to use geography-specific labels, they an still be used to view the content.
In theory, official client + VPN would also result in seeing the accounts.
LOOKING AT SOME DATA:
Bluesky has been publishing transparency reporting about legal & government requests. The most recent report covers 2024 and shows a relatively modest number of takedown requests, but about 50% response by Bluesky.
Unfortunately, the company doesn't differentiate between legal demands in civil litigation and *government* demands. This makes it hard to get a clear picture.
I hope Bluesky segments out these very different kinds of pressure in 2025 reporting so we can get a better sense of what's happening.
BIG PICTURE:
Looking ahead, governments are probing for new ways to enforce content restrictions. These are early days for Bluesky and it is likely that a lot more requests like this will be inbound as users head there to try and avoid the well-greased censorship machinery on legacy platforms like X.
Recommended reading & Sources:
Super-helpful-to-me TechCrunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/government-censorship-comes-to-bluesky-but-not-its-third-party-apps-yet/
Mastodon post confirming blocking with testing : https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114348331162291326
Bluesky post with the notification email screenshot: https://bsky.app/profile/aliskorkut.com/post/3lmul5pt34c2b
Bluesky 2024 Moderation Report: https://bsky.social/about/blog/01-17-2025-moderation-2024
Bluesky post describing geography-specific labels as a content-removal technique: https://bsky.social/about/blog/09-18-2024-trust-safety-update
NOSTR frequenter and bitcoin cold storager gazes upon Bluesky:
I’m not Canadian but I think it’s got something to do with trump being an authoritarian fascist. I think the mood changed when he indicated possibly incorporating Canada into the USA. Needless to say, Canadians are fuckin retarded
That is the establishment doing that because they are captured by Israel.
The "right-wing" or whatever you wanna call it, isnt afraid of letting others express themselves online.
we are all Adam Soltys now
"expert at everything reacts to karl pilkington taking a shit"
ethereum maxis weighing up the numbers on coinmarketcap right now
somethings going on with the bitcoin price 