By Sunday evening, X had been blocked across Brazil, aside from customers of Starlink.
The blackout is the result of a monthslong dispute between Mr. Musk and Justice Moraes. For years, the justice has been carrying out a sweeping campaign to clean up the Brazilian internet, in part by ordering social networks to suspend accounts that he says spread disinformation, hate speech or threats to democracy. He has often issued those orders under seal and with no explanation for why an account should be taken down, according to leaked copies of the orders.
Many of his orders have targeted prominent right-wing lawmakers and pundits, making Justice Moraes a top enemy of Mr. Bolsonaro and his supporters. In April, Mr. Musk began criticizing the judge in posts on X, calling him a dictator and accusing him of illegally censoring conservative voices.
In recent weeks, X began ignoring orders from Justice Moraes to block X accounts. Justice Moraes then threatened to arrest X’s legal representative in Brazil. Mr. Musk responded by pulling X’s team from the country.
On Friday, Justice Moraes ordered Anatel to block X across the nation of 200 million because the company lacked a physical presence in Brazil. He also said that people in Brazil who use privacy software called virtual private networks, or VPNs, to circumvent the blackout and use X could face fines of nearly $9,000 a day, more than what the average Brazilian earns a year.
On Saturday, X began publishing sealed orders from Justice Moraes that directed X to suspend certain accounts. Mr. Musk shared the posts and criticized Justice Moraes, adding “Karma’s a b*tch bro.”
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I’m trying to envision the response if Chief Justice Roberts began issuing secret edicts to take Bernie Sanders, AOC, Peter Schiff, etc off social media.
And lol at the dumb reporting:
“Elon Musk, owner of the social platform X, posted what appeared to be a manipulated image of Vice President Harris dressed in red military garb with the communist symbol of the hammer and sickle.”
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4859664-elon-musk-fake-image-kamala-harris/amp/
?Without reporting like that how would @TC Nole OX know whether or not it was real?
The five pillars? Trump will have you deported for that.
The five pillars? Trump will have you deported for that.
I don't know what in the sharp and focused you're talking about.This fact is particularly alarming.
“Today, you have a mountain of evidence that the Media submits to the democrats. Just look at how their narrative uniformly evolves by the day, if not by the hour.
They take directions from the Harris campaign. If you don't recognize that you are in denial.”
I don't know what in the sharp and focused you're talking about.
You won't sharp and focused enough to catch the sarcasm.Read the prior post / thread from Pierre for context.
What in the actual fock are you talking about? The media got Trump elected in 2016. Fox News is the most watched media company out there. Flip on talk radio anywhere in the country & you can listen to Trump sycophants. Just another strawman for right wingers to cry about, always the victims....Why don’t Dems care that the supposedly independent media are completely and totally beholden to one political party?
What in the actual fock are you talking about? The media got Trump elected in 2016. Fox News is the most watched media company out there. Flip on talk radio anywhere in the country & you can listen to Trump sycophants. Just another strawman for right wingers to cry about, always the victims....
It’s incoherent circular logic.It’s an excellent thoughtful thread. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
It’s incoherent circular logic.
1. Donald Trump has made numerous comments and taken actions adverse to Free Speech. (He’d like more restrictive defamation laws, political retribution against people speaking negatively about him [Michael Cohen], efforts to punish adverse press)
2. Trump had Homeland Security pick up and detain suspected protesters. They weren’t formally arrested or charged with anything. He’s also praised extrajudicial police killings. He doesn’t care about 4th or 5th Amendment protections, except as applied to him. Just look at his judicial appointments.
3. Trump directly controls the Republican Party and their campaign financing. He enforces his will be actively trying to removing opposing voices in the Party. There is no world where a Republican Congress would impeach, convict, and remove him.
4. Everything related to this point was horseshit. Maybe start with the gerrymandering or voter disenfranchisement.
5. “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” ~ Donald Trump
Wouldn’t worry about it. Simp is gonna simp.
More hivemind access. Frantastic!
Looks like more musk nonsense to me.It’s an excellent thoughtful thread. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
“They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people, without any level of oversight or regulation, and that has to stop.” - Kamala Harris
The problem with this is that politicians call everything they don't like and don't want people to hear 'Russian propaganda'.
Other than people pushing you to invest everything in gold, and boner pill ads, who is left on Twitter?
Other than people pushing you to invest everything in gold, and boner pill ads, who is left on Twitter?