Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government
eureka@aussie.zone 3 days agoMy naive guess is that if the Turkish government ban access to BlueSky for not complying, that cuts into user count and therefore profitability.
obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
That’s so dumb of Bluesky. They should provide ways for poeple to get around it or point to resources that explain how.
I STRONGLY disagree with this move. Once you give into one country it can way to easily lead to others (with more power) also trying.
eureka@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Disagree as much as you want, but assuming you’re a user, will you keep using it? This isn’t a whoopsie, or unexpected. As you pointed out, it will happen again. And it was always the safe, profitable choice for them - they’re a for-profit business beholden to VC money, not a political organisation or community project like Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.
It’s far easier to make that decision before they gain critical mass like twitter and reddit did.