X, owned by Elon Musk, claims Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest one of the company's legal representatives if it did not remove content.
  • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Musk has called the Moraes’ decisions regarding X “unconstitutional.”

    Who would know more about Brazil’s constitution? One of its Supreme Court Judge or Elon Musk?

    • TacticsConsort@yiffit.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Insane how the Republicans made ‘unconstitutional’ into another meaningless buzzword in order to try and dodge the responsibility for Jan 6th.

    • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Shut up! He singlehandedly invented Tesla, PayPal and SpaceX. He litters the space with most satellites of everybody. He brought freedom of speech back to Twitter and renamed it to a more SEO friendly X. He also supports the greatest president and best white male specimen DT. So let our overlord Musk be.

  • downpunxx@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    While any forced retreat by musk, is something to celebrate on it’s own, it should be muted by the fact that “The X service remains available to the people of Brazil, the platform said on Saturday.” seems like they’re just closing their offices so they don’t get fined or arrested, but will keep their access operational in Brazil, for now. Brazil can always shut it down any time it likes, and hope they do, but Musk closes offices and lays off employees literally all the time, literally on a whim. This is nothing for him. Sucks to be his employee, but again, anyone still choosing to be in his employ knowing the cunt fascist he’s become, deserves all the bad that’s coming to them.

    • bassad@jlai.luEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Aaah then it is not a retreat it is just an excuse to fire people and whine about regulations

  • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I hate Musk as much as anyone, but it’s a shit decision by Brazil

    • mearce@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Is it not Musks decision? I thought the situation was more akin to “Your house your rules? I don’t like your rules so I’m packing a bag and running away.”

      • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        You’re defending censoring people who are speaking out against the government. How is that a good thing?

        • Limcon@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          They tried a coup (with the military and the brazilian rural oligarchs), so it’s not “censorship”, it’s enforcing that Brazil is a democratic (even if very flawed) country. The constitution give this right to the supreme court and him (he was the supreme judge for the last election, so dealing with the aftermath of the election is his obligation), so it’s a lot more nuanced than you might say.

          Edit: If Musk doesn’t respect our laws, let him get out of here haha.

        • Nighed@sffa.communityEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Is it censorship, or stopping (actual) fake news and lies because Musk fired Twitters moderation team?

          (I don’t actually know)