The block comes after a Turkish communications official criticised the platform for what he said was a decision to block condolence posts on the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh earlier in the week.
Boss move right there. Didn’t India do something similar?
It’s a chance for a federated service like pixelfed to gain ground, but I bet the first step for most people will be getting a VPN or finding a way to circumvent the block.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Turkey is kind of problematic from a free speech perspective
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Definitely, but in this case they are fighting against it by punishing the platform.