Bitchy oligarch isn’t above the law everywhere like he wishes. Hope this helps with his downfall.
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
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
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.
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.
Well good for them.
Congrats, Brazil!
And nothing of value was lost.
Blocking Western social media is good. It might boost federated alternatives instead.
What is this X
Promote mastodon as much as you can because notes a good time to do so.
Lololol.
Brazilian Hatsune Miku was too powerful for her own good
In before he tells countries who block Xitter to go fk themselves.
Fuck Musk and everything, but Xitter has traditionally been a very powerful tool for the masses in impoverished countries to get the word out.
I know Brazil isn’t exactly a 3rd world country, but it’s not exactly the most stable of governments, either. They just recently had a Jan 6th kind of coup attempt when bolsonaros lost.
I hesitate to consider this a net good, despite hating Musk.
This whole thing started because right wing accounts were spreading misinformation and Moraes demanded they were taken down. Musk didn’t comply and removed Twitter’s legal representative here in order to not suffer the consequences.
While I think it’s fair for Twitter to be taken down for that specific reason, the judge is also taking all vpn off google and apple which is incredibly dumb and a dangerous precedent. Lots of people use vpn to work or study. It’s like banning a knife because it has the ability to hurt people. I hope they contest this one part at least.
Edit: they just went back on the decision to remove vpn, so it’s all good. Hooray.
You once could say the same about Facebook. Both it and X have been used to coordinate genocides.
That was all before Musk. Since musk took over, twitter gives in to all demands for censorship by governments. It went from about 50% to basically 100%. I expect that the information of users isn’t safe either.
It’s almost as if it was the point all along
but Xitter has traditionally been a very powerful tool for the masses in impoverished countries to get the word out.
Maybe a private, for-profit corporation run by a narcissistic billionaire shouldn’t be relied on for such things.
