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How about the last scrap of pretense at democratic rule of law? Just because someone you do not like is on the receiving end, you should not applaud the authoritarian government.
Care to expand on this?
Genuinely asking how Elon Musk unilaterally defying a unanimous court order is losing the “last scrap of pretense at democratic rule of law.” Seems like more of the same old oligarchy games like it always has been.
I can see both sides on this one I think?
Out of curiosity, would you feel differently about this if it had been a print newsletter or physical book publisher that was printing Nazi propaganda that got shutdown because they refused to stop printing Nazi propaganda?
If so, what's the substantive difference? If not, are you affirming banning people from publishing books based on ideological grounds?
Obviously banning books is bad, but obviously Nazis are bad, and that's a hard square to circle.
Except the-service-formerly-known-as-Twitter isn't being "shut down", it's being stopped at the Brazilian border. This actually happens all the time with print publications in many countries that don't take Free Speech to toxic extremes—they get confiscated at the border by Customs officials. It's less common these days than it used to be, but I'd bet that there are still instances of fringe porn and unapologetic Nazi propaganda being seized.
X-Twitter is free to go about its business in the country in which it's based and in any other country where it hasn't been banned, just not in Brazil, until and unless it decides to comply with the courts there. Which it is free to do at any time.