Great post from The Fediverse Report about Bluesky complying with requests from the Turkish government and how a labeling service can be used to hide accounts:

Such a moderation layer allows Bluesky (the app) to apply moderation decisions that are only experienced by people currently geolocated in a specific country, more on that below. A few days ago, the Turkish moderation labeler became active, and the labeler started hiding accounts, making the accounts invisible for people in Turkey.

Thomas Schewe

Bluesky PBC currently operates geographic labelers for Germany, Brazil, Turkey, and Russia. There are also references to labelers for various other regions and countries on the network, but they are not active as of writing.

As a German I dislike the fact that Germany was among the first jurisdictions requiring the activation of geographic labelers.

Manton Reece @manton
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