https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/world/americas/brazil-elon-musk-x-blocked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G04.blEl.udS9V3DaTjb-&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
The social network began to go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.
Bitchy oligarch isn’t above the law everywhere like he wishes. Hope this helps with his downfall.
This is how you deal with people like him. After trying to treat them fairly, act with strength and authority. Hit them in the wallet whenever possible.
The NYT really does take Musk at his word even when he's got a real history of banning accounts for saying true-but-left-wing things.
In a highly unusual move, Justice Moraes 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.
Wild stuff.
He tried to forbid VPN downloads too, but backpedaled on that. All the government uses VPN to work from home. Imagine you're in this scenario and open X by mistake, 9k!
I'm brazillian and its not quite blocked yet, can access it as of this moment. It will take some time until all internet providers block twitter
Can you tell us more about the motivations? Seems political more than anything specific musk is doing now that he wasnt doing before.
Im happy to see X go down in flames, but I also dont want citizens silenced if fascism is creeping in.
Mostly because of how Xitter refused to block accounts accounts related to an insurrection at the Capitol, then ignored court orders.
To be clear to usinites: that’s the Jan 8 Brazilian capitol uprising, staged a year later and in copy of the orange one.
That judge claims the people he wants banned from the platform are anti democracy and what not, but musk refused to comply. Its a complicated subject and my opinion is just that, my own opinion. That judge (most of them in fact) believe themselves to be all mighty, they interpret the law as they see fit and use their supreme court orders to do as they wish, when their role should be only to act as the highest instance of law in the country. Just today he also froze starlink's account in the country to charge fines from the twitter issue, that is not exactly the correct way to go about it, he is over stepping his powers.
To be short: fuck Elon but the supreme court here is also crap and needs a reform.
Idk. O think most people would say it os reasonable for a sex offender to be forbidden from being within 300 ft of a school zone. I would say that being banned from online forums like Twitter or Facebook is fair game for someone who lead an insurrection against their government. The punishment for that was a rope around the neck in most places until recently.
My problem isnt with the punishment, never was. My problem is how these judges have been dishing their own idea of justice and trampling over all other powers in a democracy.
Not removing misinformation posts, a large amount of unpaid fines, refusal to appoint a legal representative, threatening the judge.
That’s it. You can’t receive a court order and ignore on the grounds of “I don’t think it’s legal”. The legal system is there to be used to make those calls.
Just out of curiosity: how is the blocking usually implemented? Do they block it via DNS, or is it more sophisticated?
Is not nearly as common as you seem to imply, I have never had to deal with that kind of block in my life. It is being done by the isps themselves, thats all I know
The moment posed one of the biggest tests yet of the billionaire’s efforts to transform the site into a digital town square where just about anything goes.
This is disingenuous reporting of the NYT, just repeating Musk’s untrue “town square” meme, and saying “just about anything goes”. Anarchist and other left wing accounts were the first to be banned, and many accounts and posts from even mildly left or progressive accounts are banned and suppressed. You can’t even say the word “cis”. It’s not a place where anything goes. It’s a place where right wing content is protected and promoted. It’s a Nazi website. Say that.
Though he introduced a new rule against using a term he deems overly liberal: “cisgender.”
Bluesky is experiencing a hockeystick scenario currently, apparently. Probably entirely coincidental.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/ was about right, I think this is level nine in there
