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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There is only one (non-standard) emoji to convey my emotion on the subject

kekw

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Brazil will thrive after this decision

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Oh make the video with new subtitles.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 months ago

Bitchy oligarch isn’t above the law everywhere like he wishes. Hope this helps with his downfall.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago

Well good for them.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago

That's probably the worst part of the current press environment. If someone has a history of lying, that does not weigh on how their words are reported.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Twitter is a cesspool of racism and the preferred platform for Nazis

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... Would they know, if it's via a VPN?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

If you make any mistakes whatsoever, then yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mostly because of how Xitter refused to block accounts accounts related to an insurrection at the Capitol, then ignored court orders.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not removing misinformation posts, a large amount of unpaid fines, refusal to appoint a legal representative, threatening the judge.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity: how is the blocking usually implemented? Do they block it via DNS, or is it more sophisticated?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Though he introduced a new rule against using a term he deems overly liberal: “cisgender.”

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Congrats, Brazil!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

twitter was pile of garbage even before Muskow bought it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A crappy porn site I think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Pussy in bio!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

If you bought Twitter off Temu

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Right-wing-nutjob-infested-and-controlled social network.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I think it's what we call Xitter.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Blocking Western social media is good. It might boost federated alternatives instead.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bluesky is experiencing a hockeystick scenario currently, apparently. Probably entirely coincidental.

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l2ye7wjt662c

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Promote mastodon as much as you can because notes a good time to do so.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Keep holding this aristocrat accountable folks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In before he tells countries who block Xitter to go fk themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Brazilian Hatsune Miku was too powerful for her own good

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