Posted on 08/31/2024 12:50:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
With its ban of X, which went into effect on Saturday, Brazil joins a small club of countries to have taken similar measures against the social network, most of them run by authoritarian regimes.
The suspension was ordered by a top Brazilian judge after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country. Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Musk had been feuding for months over allegations X engaged in obstruction, criminal organization and incitement, namely the decision said, supporting a network of people known as digital militias who allegedly spread defamatory fake news and threats against Supreme Court justices.
Market research group Emarketer says some 40 million Brazilians, roughly one-fifth of the population, access X at least once per month.
Other countries restrict X Beyond permanent bans, some nations have temporarily restricted access to X, formerly Twitter, which has often been used by political dissidents to communicate.
These have included Egypt in 2011 during the Arab Spring uprisings, Turkey in 2014 and 2023, and Uzbekistan around that country's 2021 presidential election.
Here is a list of some of the others.
Beijing banned Twitter in June 2009 -- before it secured the prominent place it enjoyed in Western media and politics for much of the 2010s.
The block came two days before the 20-year anniversary of the government's crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations in the capital's Tiananmen Square.
Since then, many Chinese people have turned to home-grown alternatives such as Weibo and WeChat.
Twitter was also blocked by Tehran in 2009, as a wave of demonstrations broke out following a contested June presidential election.The network has nevertheless been used since then to pass information to the outside world about dissident movements, including the demonstrations against Iran's repression of women's rights since late 2022.
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Brazil did to their president what our fraudulent government did to Trump. Turned him out via election fraud and arrested him.
The totalitarian movement is world wide.
“keeping the peasants in the dark is the only way to keep the masses from working together in order to free themselves from their dictators”.
Leftist Fascists on the rise.
It is. They have to be communicating.
Leftist Fascists on the rise.
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Kamala approves
Reminder Video
Kamala Harris says social media companies have a responsibility to censor
https://rumble.com/v5d1ar8-kamala-harris-says-social-media-companies-have-a-responsibility-to-censor.html
Apple and google nave 4 days to remove X from app stores
Will they fold?
Or will they dare Brazil to ban them too
WHO CAN SHUT DOWN STARLINK AT A WHIM???
“WHO CAN SHUT DOWN STARLINK AT A WHIM???”
He needs to do that like yesterday. Also if the people of this country want be proactive and send an effective warning message, every Conservative business website should block all of Brazil’s IP addresses. Stop doing business with them in whole.
“defamatory fake news” against the Brazilian Supreme Court? Did someone accuse the Court of being honest?
It’s all about our election. They want to shut down Elon Musk and star link before the election here.
That right there should scare the hell out of any idiot.
So I guess that means twitter runs uncensored in some parts of Antarctica.
BREAKING: Elon Musk has created an account to expose the unlawful directives issued to 𝕏 by Alexandre de Moraes.
Follow
@alexandrefiles
https://x.com/alexandrefiles
Does Musk have a Facebook/Instagram/TikTok account?
It might be fun to see how fast he gets blocked, and by whom. If he gets blocked by the libs here, that will be fun. It will also be fun if Brazil orders those sites to block Musk.
No. SpaceX used to have an account on Facebook but Musk took it down years ago. Mostly due to his rivalry with Mark Zuckerberg.
Yes, it is and it's only going to get worse.
And interestingly, the Bible predicts it.
Yes, it is and it's only going to get worse.
And interestingly, the Bible predicts it.
Meanwhile, tptb in Brazil are still posting on X as are some dissident type political figures there.
Another interesting thing is that a lot of people on X, outside of Brazil, are swapping their VPN to a Brazil IP, myself included.
How are they going to figure out who’s on X from Brazil if everyone on X is from Brazil?
I imagine there’s a way but it takes more work and time. Now they have to shut down VPN services from using Brazilian IP addresses?
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