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Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline
(www.theguardian.com)
Lets hope the EU will follow soon. Brazil leads the way!
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2024
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The brazil Judiciary want some profiles blocked. Is that what the EU should demand too?
Blocking profiles seems heavy handed, and best aimed at the individual, not the provider.
Well, there are quite some profiles doing nothing but spreading hate and misinformation in ways that exceed the limits of free speech, and blocking them would be a good way to stay within the law. Many European countries have quite strong opinions on people spreading Nazi propaganda, for example. Or call for committing crimes or bodily harm. The EU demands removal of such post and even accounts, but X is getting slower and more reluctant in following the laws. I think, banning X in the EU is overdue.
Spread it to Everybody from Brazil: Leave Xitter, JOIN MASTODON!
How to join Mastodon:
There is some misleading information in there. Probably better to just get straight to the point with the 'standard' https://joinmastodon.org/ link.
I think that site has incorrect information. They wrote "you need to sign up separately on every server on Mastodon to see their community posts" but surely that's the opposite of what the fediverse is about? Mastodon's server page even says that with a single account you can see everything.
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People seem to be going to bluesky, even the president is there
Is Xitter pronounced Shitter? Makes South Park prophetic again.
Of course it is.
To be fair, X didn't "miss the deadline".
They never gave a shit in the first place.
sounds feasible except the "blocking the use of vpn apps" part?
He went back on that part (in Portuguese):
Yeah, that line was particularly concerning. I'm all for watching Elon get a Brazilian beatdown, but that feels like a pretty large overstep.
Justice Moraes had also said that any person in Brazil who tried to still use X via common privacy software called a virtual private network, or VPN, could be fined nearly $9,000 a day. But after swift backlash across Brazil, including from academics who have supported him, he reversed that move in an amended order late Friday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/world/americas/brazil-elon-musk-x-blocked.html
Good to see someone listening to people more knowledgeable than them.
Yeah, this left a bad taste.
At least he revoked this section of the decision a couple hours later.
At best that’s just unclear. Blocking VPNs isn’t impossible, just impractical. And it’s not like Brazil just became China. At worst, the just made accessing X impracticality expensive for its users— which, in Brazil, is a lot of people. In typical Brazilian fashion, they’re hitting Elon in the wallet.
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When you’re too corrupt, even for Brazil, that really does say something.
They're more WhatsApp people than Twitter people anyway.
But this is pretty standard legal stuff. Musk just doesn't think he has to send a lawyer down to argue his case. He can blow it off, thinking that he's simply above the law.
It isn't even corruption, per say. It's just entitlement slamming into another state's basic sovereignty.
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You know how Americans have ZERO base to stand on talking about other countries anymore? Didn’t get the memo? You guys are the bottom of the barrel now in every aspect. Sheesh.
Late on Friday afternoon, Justice Alexandre de Moraes – who has been engaged in a dispute with X’s owner, Elon Musk, since April
A Justice isn’t in a dispute with anyone, Guardian. A Justice rules based on law. In the case of Brazil, the Justice system is based on Roman law, as opposed to Common law that is in effect in UK and USA. That means a judge has even less power, as they are tied to existing legislation and can’t rule unless there’s a specific codified law that allows them to rule in that way for that crime or misdemeanor.
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