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Censoring Social Media
In mid-April we learned about Bluesky censoring accounts as demanded by the government of Türkiye. While I haven’t seen coverage of who the account-holders were and what they said, the action followed on protests against Turkish autocrat Erdoğan for ordering the arrest of an opposition leader — typical behavior by a thin-skinned Führer-wannabe.
While I haven’t seen coverage of who the account-holders were and what they said, the action followed on protests against Turkish autocrat Erdoğan for ordering the arrest of an opposition leader — typical behavior by a thin-skinned Führer-wannabe. In general, a certain proportion of people are garbage and will post terrible, hateful, damaging things that make the online experience somewhere in the range between unpleasant and intolerable, to the extent that many who deserve to be heard will be driven away. Block access to the app and a lot of people won’t notice because they use the browser, connecting to one of the thousands of Fediverse instances, desktop or mobile, and it’ll work fine.
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