New X Court Filing Says It's Complying with Brazil's Orders to Block Accounts (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/09/21/2018239/new-x-court-filing-says-its-complying-with-brazils-orders-to-block-accounts
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/21/x-reverses-course-in-brazil/
> In a statement tweeted from X's global government affairs account, the company said the [2]restoration of service was an "inadvertent and temporary" side-effect of switching network providers.
But Friday "After defying court orders in Brazil for three weeks, Mr. Musk's social network, X, has capitulated," [3]writes the New York Times . "In a court filing on Friday night, the company's lawyers said that X had complied with orders from Brazil's Supreme Court in the hopes that the court would lift [4]a block on its site."
"The company's lawyers said X had complied with the court's orders — blocking designated accounts, paying fines, and naming a new formal representative in the country," [5]writes TechCrunch (citing reporting by the New York Times):
> In a filing of its own, the Supreme Court reportedly responded by telling X it had not provided the proper paperwork and giving it five days to do so....
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> X came back online in Brazil earlier this week, although Cloudflare CEO [6]Matthew Prince told TechCrunch that the timing of the company's recent switch to Cloudflare infrastructure is just a "coincidence." During the ban, Brazilian users sought out social media alternatives, leading to dramatic growth at [7]Bluesky and [8]Tumblr .
The New York Times believes "The moment showed how, in the yearslong power struggle between tech giants and nation-states, governments have been able to keep the upper hand."
Although I'm curious about that missing paperwork...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/18/elon-musks-x-brazil-block
[2] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/09/19/013219/x-circumvents-court-ordered-block-in-brazil
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/americas/elon-musk-x-brazil.html
[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/world/americas/brazil-elon-musk-x-blocked.html
[5] https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/21/x-reverses-course-in-brazil/
[6] https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/20/musk-dodged-brazils-x-ban-by-coincidence-says-cloudflare-ceo/
[7] https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/bluesky-now-has-10-million-users/
[8] https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/20/after-twitter-x-ban-in-brazil-tumblr-reports-350-percent-user-growth/
I'm a bit surprised (Score:2)
I had my bets on "nominal compliance" i.e. paying the fine and complying with the court orders, followed shortly by "voluntarily" shutting down X in Brazil.
In other words, I was expecting him to throw the businessman's equivalent of a temper tantrum and say "Okay, fine, have it your way, no X for you!" and stomp off fuming.
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> Meanwhile he's promising self driving cars again because he's out of ideas, and we keep falling for it anyway.
Mister Ketamine has a cult following. There isn't much we can do about that, other than let it self destruct.
It's like the people who now believe that Chocolate people in Ohio are eating our pets, and that 20 million people cam into the USA, as his boss claims.
It's like the Cybertruck is the best truck ever, and that the hyperloop is creating a revolution in transport, and that we're gonna have crew dragons landing on Mars since 2016. Just bullshit lapped up by their cultists, like God's voice to th
The problem is he's going to dump the bad stock (Score:1)
On a combination of uninformed investors, our 401ks and public pensions. What he's not going to do is take the hit himself. The upper class never take the hit themselves they always somehow dump it on us.
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Chocolate people? A city of 60 thousand people got 20 thousand Haitian migrants dumped on them over a few years.
Look at this news report from 2 months ago (before the big hoopla): [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Incredible challenges with the school system, the police and fire departments, local services! Look, you can't just expect 20 THOUSAND people, from an impoverished and under-developed civilization to just acclimate into modern life. There's videos of guys walking down the street with ducks and g
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecU4zSuNvhc&ab_channel=WSYXABC6
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> But Twitter's revenue is down 84%,
Yes, there is [1]conspiracy [house.gov] to [2]to harm X [reuters.com] for ideological reasons.
[1] https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/collusion-global-alliance-responsible-media
[2] https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-x-accuses-advertisers-illegal-boycott-new-lawsuit-2024-08-06/
That's just silly (Score:1)
There's no conspiracy major brands don't want to be associated with neo-Nazis. Elon musk has repeatedly refused to moderate the Nazis off his website.
The exact same thing happened with the ad-pocalypse. Coca-Cola and a couple of the big brands had their advertisements played on YouTube channels for Neo-Nazis and everybody pulled their advertising. It permanently changed YouTube because they had the crackdown like a motherfucker on absolutely everything to get the advertisers back.
It's the old Nazi ba
Who's curious? (Score:2)
> Although I'm curious about that missing paperwork...
Who exactly is curious? What is this, SlashdotWeekend? Stop the lazy and attribute this stupid quote.
What's going on in Brazil? (Score:2, Informative)
For anyone interested... Brazil is currently going through some dark times:
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Elon Musk is trying to enable freedom of speech and help shine a light on corruption. It's much like he's doing in the US, and also when he talks about the horrible corruption in South Africa. He's a GOOD GUY, demonized by the legacy media.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adRcD_nZx58
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Marked Troll - Thanks Slashdot... No rebuttals, no denials, just marked troll. Go watch that video and look through the comment section! Then go actually see Elon musk speak on the topic. Listen to HIM, not the BBC or NBC news coverage.
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It isn't Slashdot, it is -1 Disagree abusers. Everyone reads at -1 anyways, so it doesn't really matter.
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> Marked Troll - Thanks Slashdot... No rebuttals, no denials, just marked troll. Go watch that video and look through the comment section! Then go actually see Elon musk speak on the topic. Listen to HIM, not the BBC or NBC news coverage.
Because you are are troll. He is not for free speech and he's shown that time and again. If he was for free speech he wouldn't have sucked Erdogan's dick when told to censor posts of political opponents, AND [1]give an excuse why he did it [imgur.com]. You will note Twitter Global Government Affairs stated, and I quote: In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today.
Kindly tell us how abiding by one leg
[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/amazing-oAXNddH
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Elon is the biggest hypocrite there is. Use the word "cisgender" and your account gets flagged and with limited visibility. [1]https://fortune.com/2023/06/21... [fortune.com]
Elon suspending the White Dudes For Harris account [2]https://variety.com/2024/digit... [variety.com]
Elon suspending journalists who write about him. [3]https://www.pbs.org/newshour/n... [pbs.org]
Elon complying with government censorship. [4]https://www.forbes.com/sites/k... [forbes.com]
Remember when Elon wanted freedom of speech? Pepperidge Farms remembers. [5]https://www.reuters.com/techno... [reuters.com]
[1] https://fortune.com/2023/06/21/elon-musk-declares-cis-cisgender-slurs-twitter-punishable-suspension/
[2] https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/elon-musk-suspends-white-dudes-for-harris-twitter-x-1236089959/
[3] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/journalists-who-wrote-about-owner-elon-musk-suspended-from-twitter
[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/twitter-has-complied-with-almost-every-government-request-for-censorship-since-musk-took-over-report-finds/
[5] https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-offers-buy-twitter-5420-per-share-2022-04-14/
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> For anyone interested... Brazil is currently going through some dark times: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
> Elon Musk is trying to enable freedom of speech and help shine a light on corruption. It's much like he's doing in the US, and also when he talks about the horrible corruption in South Africa. He's a GOOD GUY, demonized by the legacy media.
Perhaps Elon does not understand that outside of the USA he's just a rich dude other than that, his shit stinks like us mere mortals.
Perhaps many of us have a credibility gap with what he says.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adRcD_nZx58