Members of Brazil’s supreme court have unanimously voted to uphold the ban on X, after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws led to the social network being blocked in one of its biggest markets.
On Monday, five of the court’s justices were asked to consider Friday’s decision to temporarily banish X from Brazil, where the platform has more than 21 million users. By lunchtime all five had voted in favour of the ban.
Casting his vote in favour of X’s continued suspension, Flávio Dino said the company’s decision to “deliberately” ignore a court order to name a legal representative in Brazil suggested it “considered itself above the rule of law”.
Even if it somehow gets reinstated, the damage is done. Majority have already left for alternatives.
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I guess all this block did was teach the Brazilian population how to use VPNs.
ISPs have a period to comply with the order. Mine still hasn’t blocked the shitshow.
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Twitter users aren’t smart enough to figure out how to use VPNs
The judge that banned X also stated a fine of 10k for anyone using a VPN to circumvent the ban.
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I doubt the average twitter user gives a semblance of a shit.
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You mean: when an X user finds themselves unable to load the main page, they’ll get frustrated, uninstall the app and leave a review about how it’s broken.
You grossly overestimate the tech savvyness of your average internet user, and their willingness to spend any amount of time or money to fix a minor inconvenience.
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Yeah, I doubt most people will go this route. VPNs cost money, Twitter alternatives are free.
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Tell me you support Bolsonaro and Musk without telling me you support them
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However, I can recognize that his passion for free speech is genuine; otherwise, he wouldn’t have bought Twitter for $44
You really make recoil in disgust at the depths of denial you can plunge to in order to stan a billionaire.
“Musk […] passion for free speech is genuine”
As long as it lines up with the right wing agenda, otherwise it’s woke bullshit that needs to be censored and banned, right?
Delusional, both of you.
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Before Elon acquired Twitter, the platform enforced an one-sided policy of censoring right-wing points of view. It even started actively shielding the left from any criticism, such as when the Hunter Biden Laptop story was blatantly censored so as to not affect Joe Biden’s presidential campaign negatively.
What’s funny is that there are a slew of articles from 2019 to 2022, before Musk’s takeover, talking about a study that found Twitter’s algorithm actually had a right wing bias because conservative opinions generated higher engagement (both positive and negative) so it boosted them more than liberal ones.
Also Elon has censored many news stories about himself and his companies since his acquisition. He hasn’t stopped censorship, he merely took control of it.
A handful of citations:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59011271
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/twitter-musk-censors-turkey-election-erdogan
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-journalists-free-speech-mashable-matt-binder
