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X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
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The law doesn't function the same everywhere. When you start/run an international business, it is necessary to understand this. When you don't, things like this happen.
Ok, but there isn't anything in the Brazilian body of law that says social media needs to have legal representation in the country to be functional, otherwise TikTok, Reddit and even Lemmy would've been blocked long ago, that's the argument being made. That said, nothing like this has ever happened before, so maybe this could serve as a precedent for a new series of legislations.
There is, the "Marco Civil da Internet" states that a business that works in Brazil needs to respect Brazil's law, and non compliance may trigger block in it's service by ruling. The representation don't need to be on the country, the problem with Twitter is that they closed its offices here trying to avoid compliance in the first place. Elon is trying to enforce his views over Brazil's law. To force a crisis IMHO.
Oh yeah, not the person you replied to directly, but it's insanely obvious to me that this is YET ANOTHER PR stunt to make Elon look like he's being targeted. ANY other international social media would have tried to resolve this quietly, the public probably wouldn't even know.