X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkey political opposition
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schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:14 zuletzt editiert von
He needs a Blu Sky account ASAP
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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...
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:17 zuletzt editiert vonX is challenging the legal order in court btw:
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?
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He needs a Blu Sky account ASAP
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:23 zuletzt editiert von freedomadvocate@lemmy.net.au 5. Sept. 2025, 21:22BlueSky 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]
Bluesky Social (bsky.app)
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Nazi platform.
Make sure to stop clicking on Nazi links when people post them. No matter how bad you want to see someone "prank" someone or cry about their perceived persecution.
We need to stop making a Nazi platform important enough that it hurts democratic politicians when they lose access because of the Nazi in charge of said platform.
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:27 zuletzt editiert vonX 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.
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As a serious answer, Musk is into modern variants of eugenics and some scary techno-authoritarian stuff he shares with Peter Theil and other Silicon Valley royalty.
Maybe he’s a techno-neonazi? That’s just semantics.
His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring. But “Nazi” is an reasonable enough descriptor for his beliefs.
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:30 zuletzt editiert vonHis 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.
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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.
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:33 zuletzt editiert vonYou'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.
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It’s frustrating that we knew he was full of shit when he was saying it. And now the evidence is showing it is bullshit. And it’s like it doesn’t even matter.
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:46 zuletzt editiert vonX restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.
"full of shit" = "standing up for free speech against governments that are trying to censor political opponents" ?
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Why would he get blocked there?
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:53 zuletzt editiert von freedomadvocate@lemmy.net.au 5. Sept. 2025, 21:22He 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]
Bluesky Social (bsky.app)
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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.
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:53 zuletzt editiert vonTim Waltz does not have eugenics-adjacent beliefs.
Also, I think you may have misinterpreted what “red herring” means.
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Tim Waltz does not have eugenics-adjacent beliefs.
Also, I think you may have misinterpreted what “red herring” means.
schrieb am 8. Mai 2025, 23:55 zuletzt editiert vonI 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.
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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.
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 00:04 zuletzt editiert vonYes 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.
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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.
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 00:05 zuletzt editiert vonOnly if you ignore that Twitter is owned by a nazi
It's not.
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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.
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 00:06 zuletzt editiert vonHere's the full, non cropped video. It's around the 1:51 mark.
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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.
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 00:08 zuletzt editiert vonYeah, 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...
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Here's the full, non cropped video. It's around the 1:51 mark.
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 00:24 zuletzt editiert vonIt's not around the 1:15 mark, it's around the 2min mark. Same "salute" as Musk.
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It's not around the 1:15 mark, it's around the 2min mark. Same "salute" as Musk.
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 00:29 zuletzt editiert vonIt 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
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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.
"full of shit" = "standing up for free speech against governments that are trying to censor political opponents" ?
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 00:30 zuletzt editiert vonHow is what you quoted "standing up" to anything? Am I missing something?
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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
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 00:38 zuletzt editiert vonHis gesture is as much of a "Nazi salute" as Elon Musks. They're either both Nazi salutes, or neither are. No other option.
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How is what you quoted "standing up" to anything? Am I missing something?
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 00:42 zuletzt editiert von freedomadvocate@lemmy.net.au 5. Sept. 2025, 21:23Am I missing something?
Yes. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you might have taken the quoted text and the link as being the same thing, when they are 2 separate things.
The X link is a post from X Global Government Affairs regarding this Turkey censorship situation. Some of the text from it:
X received an order to restrict access in Türkiye to the account of the now-detained Mayor of Istanbul. While we have followed Türkiye’s order regarding the account, we strongly disagree with the order and are challenging the order in court. In the spirit of full transparency, we are sharing the court order and our legal filing below.
The order was received from the Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority. These orders require X to block content in Türkiye that is available in the rest of the world.
Lack of compliance with these orders can lead to severe sanctions, including throttling of the entire platform in Türkiye. X complied with the court order while we challenge the order in court because we believe keeping the platform accessible in Türkiye is vital to supporting freedom of expression and access to information, particularly following natural disasters and other emergencies.
In the spirit of upholding due process, we carefully review all the requests under the local law. X has been and will continue to object to removal orders including government requests in courts to protect users when those requests do not align with principles of free expression, due process, or other local laws.
Basically the government threatened X to censor that account in Turkey or face severe punishment, like many censorship-happy governments have done lately. X complied but are taking them to court over their order, like they have done with all the other censorship-happy governments who have done the same thing.
BlueSky banned the politicians account there btw. They aren't challenging the order in court.
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A little context might have been nice, but then the musk hate and conspiracy theories would be harder to justify:
X restricted Imamoglu’s account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.
They're also challenging the legal request in court: https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1920426409358455081
schrieb am 9. Mai 2025, 01:42 zuletzt editiert vonComplying with the incumbent to silence opposition is a political decision. Erdoğan is known for silencing and jailing opposition and anyone with knowledge of Turkish politics is aware of this
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