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.

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.

Am 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.

Complying 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

Complying with the incumbent to silence opposition is a political decision.

No it's not. Did you even read the linked X Global Affairs post?

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.

It's not a political decision, it's a legal one. If they don't comply then the entire site can legally be banned from the entire country, for example.

Yes I read that and hold that this decision is still highly political. Technically X can choose to simply not exist in Turkey. Obviously they won't do this and Erdogan knows this, profit is king. This doesn't change the fact that they are choosing to cow to threats by a dictator. Legal decisions are political and have political implications. Who do you think wrote those laws?