They comply with local laws and legal orders, like the one that forced them to do this:

X restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.

X also are challenging the legal order in court: https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1920426409358455081

Yeah, he is forced to, but just to be clear, he will bitch for a month if this happens for thoroughly legitimate reasons in any country that is a functioning democracy e.g. UK, Brazil, Biden US, Germany, South Africa...

He needs a Blu Sky account ASAP

X is challenging the legal order in court btw:

(x.com)

Just like they have done and are doing in basically every country that makes legal demands like this.

Edit: the dogpiling in here is insane.

I post a link to a tweet where X spell out that they were FORCED by the Turkish government to ban the account, and that they are challenging the order in court because they don’t believe in this violation of free speech……and I get downvoted?

BlueSky would ban his account as well. It was banned in Turkey because of a legal request by the Turkish government. If they don't comply there are huge legal consequences.

Would BlueSky, the huge fans of censorship that they are, challenge the decision in court like X are though? Not a chance.

Edit: seems bluesky have already banned his account lol

Sedat Kapanoğlu (@ssg.dev)

so apparently, bluesky has started honoring government takedown requests from turkish government. i wonder what the nature of measures taken are. do the accounts or the content get taken down or do they get geofenced, @jay.bsky.team ? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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X restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.

X are also challenging the legal order in court: https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1920426409358455081

You've called the good guys here the nazis and let the actual authoritarians off the hook scott-free.

His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring.

Tim Waltz did the exact same salute btw. The same Tim Waltz that says that Trump 100% did a nazi salute. I guess Tim Waltz is a Nazi too.

You've called the good guys here the nazis and let the actual authoritarians off the hook scott-free.

Only if you ignore that Twitter is owned by a nazi, and that the person above didn't say anything about letting, the authoritarian regime in turkey off the hook.

X restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.

(x.com)

"full of shit" = "standing up for free speech against governments that are trying to censor political opponents" ?

He would get blocked there because BlueSky will comply with legal requests as well, because if they don't they will face criminal charges and/or massive fines. BlueSky, being a platform that loves censorship, would not challenge the legal order in court like X are either.

Even fediverse instance owners would be forced to block his accounts under threat of fines and/or prosecution.

edit: BlueSky have already blocked his account lol

Sedat Kapanoğlu (@ssg.dev)

so apparently, bluesky has started honoring government takedown requests from turkish government. i wonder what the nature of measures taken are. do the accounts or the content get taken down or do they get geofenced, @jay.bsky.team ? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Tim Waltz does not have eugenics-adjacent beliefs.

Also, I think you may have misinterpreted what “red herring” means.

I didn't misinterpret that, I was simply pointing out that it wasn't a nazi salute unless you also think Tim Waltz is a nazi.

Yes notice the crisp snappy way waltz did it? With fingers together, and twice so there is no way to doubt what it was? Ohhh wait sorry that was elons.

Only if you ignore that Twitter is owned by a nazi

It's not.

Here's the full, non cropped video. It's around the 1:51 mark.

Yeah, elon's not a nazi...

...he just wanted to send out a message of hope and support to nazis round the world by siegheiling twice on stage behind the seal of the United States...yeah...

It's not around the 1:15 mark, it's around the 2min mark. Same "salute" as Musk.

It really isn't. It's not even close. You said I had gold medal mental gymnastics, but you've just done another gold medal performance.

E: but thank you for pointing out my typo

How is what you quoted "standing up" to anything? Am I missing something?

His gesture is as much of a "Nazi salute" as Elon Musks. They're either both Nazi salutes, or neither are. No other option.