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Comment on Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline

Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m kind of on the fence with this one.

As much as I dislike Twitter/X and it’s owner; their ‘crime’ is refusing to silence the political opponents of those currently in power, then further refusing to pay fines for that decision… Decisions, at least in principle, I agree with.

That said: I haven’t actually seen the content that’s at the center of this dispute; the posts of those political opponents. I’m also not very familiar with Brazils politics, so perhaps there’s context I’m missing.

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merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
musk has no problems with taking down political opponents’ xitter accounts when the request is coming from “right wing” governments (rather authoritarian or far-right)

he doesn’t care about freedom of speech, he only cares about his kind of speech. If he refused all take down requests, i would agree with you

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- Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  ~~As far as I understand this is a right-wing authoritarian gov silencing left-wing opponent’s. ~~
  
  ~~Am i mistaken?~~
  
  /pre-post edit: Yes, yes I am.
  
  That certainly throws out any bit of sympathy I may of had… Though I still think they made the right decision to refuse to comply.
  
  ¯\(-_-)/¯ oh well.
  
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ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

their ‘crime’ is refusing to silence the political opponents of those currently in power

First they came for the christofascists who attempted a coup, and I didn’t speak out 😔

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NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

their ‘crime’ is refusing to silence the political opponents of those currently in power, then further refusing to pay fines for that decision…

Isn’t it natural: if you refuse to obey numerous court orders and pay your fines, you’ll get even worse court orders. This is not exactly the way to challenge the reasons for these other orders.

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suction@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If that’s what you think is wrong with Twitter, you might be one of the bad guys

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- Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  that’s what you think is wrong with Twitter
  
  ?
  
  What is ‘that’ exactly…?
  
  I’ve said nothing about what’s wrong with twitter. I’ve said I agree with refusing to silence political opposition for those in power, at least in principle. I’ve also, at least tried, to be pretty clear I’m likely missing some contex; so that may be a bit of a misinterpretation of the situation.
  
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