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Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records (www.wired.com)

submitted 5 hours ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Bluesky tells WIRED it blocked links to a leaked archive of information on 41,000 ICE, CBP, and other DHS workers because it contains people’s contact information, shared without their authorization.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Bluesky is supposed to be decentralized in some way right? Does anyone know if whatever they're doing to censor this genuinely prevents people from viewing them or not, how does that work?

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 2 points 36 minutes ago

From my understanding the software is able to be decentralized but from what I see most people don't. They're blocking it on their instance. So theoretically two different bluesky instances can share between each other but the bsky.app won't.

[–] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 4 points 3 hours ago

Well bluesky is made of different parts (AppView, PDS, …) that almost all have alternatives, it's decentralised but in a different way, and better than ActivityPub imho.

But the fact is that the vast majority of users still use the default parts made by Bluesky.

What's weird is that this censorship is not made with Bluesky's moderation and I can see the posts and open the link just fine. I'm trying with the default app, AppView and moderation but an alternative PDS. But I don't see how a PDS is supposed to change that, maybe it's because I don't have a US IP?