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Xatolos@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

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X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

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Xatolos@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil "effective immediately" due to what it called "censorship orders" by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, claims Moraes secretly threatened one of the company's legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform. The social media giant published pictures of a document allegedly signed by Moraes which says a daily fine of 20,000 reais ($3,653) and an arrest decree would be imposed against X representative Rachel Nova Conceicao if the platform did not fully comply to Moraes' orders.
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  • Plopp@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Aw. Do us next please.

    Kind regards,

    Europe

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      USA next. If we can ban TikTok, we can do Twitter too!

      • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world
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        Ugh, TikTok isn’t banned in the US…

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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          No, but they have been trying to ban it.

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            Until they do, your statement doesn’t make sense lol

        • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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          As someone who hates corporate social media (and TikTok especially), I can’t figure out if banning TikTok is a legit security issue or racist. I’d love to see it go, but I can’t seem to form an opinion on the matter despite reading up on it several times.

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      Hopefully it is first brick in the wall, after Brazil finds it did not collapse due to absence of twitter

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        deleted by creator

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          As someone who has some social media including Twitter geoblocked… No, this is not enough to make a social media die down in a region lol

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  • vistencluse@lemmy.world
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    For everyone that interpreted this as saying that X will be banned here: It won’t. X will still work. But all X staff in Brazil were laid off.

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    …and nothing of value was lost

    • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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      Except the jobs of all those Brazilian employees

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        You’re right, it was a bit too off the cuff of a remark. Though I can’t imagine they’ve had fun there since the Muppet took over. Can you imagine being the poor bastard who had to tell Phony Stark about this whole thing? They probably had to remind him that their office existed only to have him sack everyone.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    Congrats, Brazil!!

  • prime@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Brazil is based for once

  • BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works
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    How do we get some of them Brazilian content orders here in the states?

  • miau@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Does this harm twitter in any way?

    I mean, if they are still reachable and usable in Brazil, they can still serve ads to those users and so it seems their business doesnt change much?

    But there must have been some advantage for twitter in having an office there, otherwise they wouldnt have opened it in the first place.

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      They can’t sell Brazilian ads to Brazilians, as that needs an office/presence in Brazil. This hurts the value of ads that Xitter can charge when dealing with users in Brazil (Brazil is the largest economy in South America, and with Xitter already having ad money problems, it isn’t a good thing for them.)

      So while they could still show ads to Brazilians, the fact is it would be for companies with offices outside Brazil, something not many would care about.

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        Good. Let’s hope the public moves to mastodon.

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          They’ll move to Threads or Bluesky long before they even think of saying the word mastodon

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        That makes sense. Thanks a lot for the explanation!

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    Lucky Brazil!

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    Removed by mod

    • kamenoko@sh.itjust.works
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      A failed online back, then nothing for 20 years, and then it ate Twitter.

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