Brazil's block on X comes into effect after judge's order.

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• ohellidk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good. I’m happy to see that elon’s behavior is finally not being tolerated. Everyone should treat him like the spoiled little brat he is.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The judge also demanded Google, Apple and internet providers “**introduce technological obstacles capable of preventing the use of **the X application” and access to the website — although he later walked back that order.

  I’m so fucking confused by the way this is worded. Like, the internet providers I would expect, for like a DNS block. Google and Apple can at least argue some technical hokum about how they can’t do anything about people who already have the app in court, although that’s likely not true.

  But if he walked back the entire order, does that include the DNS block, or was it just the part for Google and Apple?

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  • stochastic_parrot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google and Apple were notified in order to block access to X/Twitter’s app in Brazil on their app stores.

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I can see it being pretty aggressive. It’s like being punished for something a neighbor did. It would not make them feel good and even push them to give the double middle fingers akimbo to Brazil.

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• Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate Elon Musk but this is not good. Countries should not ban apps.

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like Brazil has a law where you need to have a designated point of contact in-country, notified Musk of that, and he refused.

    I guess Russia and Saudi Arabia care less about manipulating elections and stoking violence in Brazil than in other countries. Gotta focus.

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    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He did even more than refuse. He is making elementary school level memes of the judge and mocking him. Hes such a manchild 😑

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  • zante@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apps should not break the law.

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  • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I get what you mean but you have to remember that that would mean corporations can do as they please.

    No matter how much freedom and freedom of speech we have. There HAS to me a line. Like letting hate speech spread and neo nazis make it their home is one of those lines.

    The judge asked twitter to have a legal representative IN brazil that can speak for the company on issues the government has with twitter. Elon musk told them to fuck off. So they now tell him to fuck off then. And now musk is crying and triggered.

    Random and pretty extreme maybe, but its a clear example. Imagine someone standing infront of the house of a person of color and just shouting the n word over and over. Should he be arrested for hate speech? Or would that be an attack on freedom of speech?

    Elon does not want freedom of speech. He wants freedom of consequences.

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  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Perhaps if an app wants to do business in a country it should send an ambassador there to have a full time presence. Seems a reasonable compromise to me.

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Countries in the Middle East block social media - bad.

  Brazil blocks X - good.

  Talk about double standards… it’s censorship either way and it’s not good.

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  • Enoril@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    X is no more a social media… It’s a rogue social media not following the rules of the country it operate in.

    You talks about double standards… Try first to not mixing totally not related root cause. Censoring vs Legals.

    X could have been able to avoid that if the company had proper leadership in place.

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• blibla@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so jealous i might move there

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