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Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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420 points rvz | 2 comments | 31 Aug 24 13:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Laaas ◴[31 Aug 24 15:03 UTC] No.41409386[source]▶
They will ban Bluesky too if it gets too popular .
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stevebmark ◴[31 Aug 24 16:49 UTC] No.41410090[source]▶
AT Protocol aggregators (“relays”) can choose their own content moderation policies. It’s possible that if there are multiple relays, and one of them doesn’t block violent / hate speech, the government would ban that relay and corresponding domain, and others could continue to thrive.
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verdverm ◴[31 Aug 24 21:17 UTC] No.41412077[source]▶
ATProto actually separates moderation from PDS or App View. Users can choose which labellers they prefer and can even combine them, separate from where they host their data or the UI they choose to use.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...

They do the same for feeds, 4 core components, with user choice and interoperability for each

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jazzyjackson ◴[31 Aug 24 23:58 UTC] No.41412977[source]▶
So what levers does that give governments seeking to get compliance out of an internet service - if multiple apps are hosting anti-party propaganda the government has to block the domains of each app ?

Or, perhaps the domains of the content itself is blocked so apps continue to work but fail to load content within certain borders ?

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1. stale2002 ◴[01 Sep 24 16:11 UTC] No.41418042[source]▶
The answer is that the government won't have many levels to pull to censor content on the internet.

I think that people are are celebrating the ban of X, and moving to decentralized platforms, forgot that the whole point of decentralization is to make censorship difficult.

When you move to bluesky, you just support an even more free version of twitter.

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2. verdverm ◴[01 Sep 24 17:24 UTC] No.41418599[source]▶
Freer from both govt and corporate controls

Feed (algo) and moderation services are choices at the individual user level