X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it’s ending operations in Brazil, although the service will remain available to users in the country. The announcement comes during a legal battle with Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who sought to block certain accounts on X as part of an […]
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Not a surprise unfortunately. Brazil has historical has issues with government abuse of power.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
The “abuse of power” was telling Xitter to remove illegal content.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Illegal content can be anything though. It is hard to make any judgment without knowing what it was
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
More like Elon ego was hurt, so he’s retaliating the only way he knows how.
dsilverz@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
It just that when billionaires get billionaire, money is not as funny as before, so they need to pursue other sources of dopamin, such as playing gods or dealing with politics. In case of Musk, both of them (Neuralink, although an interesting advance in scientific knowledge, is commercially his “god role” trying to find a way to the human brain, and Xwitter is his political tool).
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I doubt it in this case. Somehow I don’t think Xitter wants to deal with the Brazilian government
A7thStone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Unlike countries like Turkey, that have never been shown to abuse their power.
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