Posted on 08/17/2024 11:09:40 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the social media platform X would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” from the Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes.
X claims Moraes secretly threatened one of its legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform. Brazil’s supreme court, where Moraes has a seat, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
TheX service remains available to the people of Brazil, the billionaire Elon Musk’s platform said on Saturday.
Earlier this year, Moraes ordered X to block certain accounts, as he investigated so-called “digital militias” that have been accused of spreading fake news and hate messages during the government of the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Moraes opened an inquiry earlier this year into Musk after he said he would reactivate accounts on X that the judge had ordered blocked. Musk has called Moraes’s decisions regarding X “unconstitutional”.
After Musk’s challenges, X representatives reversed course and told Brazil’s supreme court that the social media giant would comply with the legal rulings.
Lawyers representing X in Brazil in April told the supreme court that “operational faults” had allowed users who were ordered blocked to stay active on the social media platform, after Moraes had asked X to explain why it allegedly had not fully complied with his decisions.
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This is why you don’t mess with a guy worth nearly 300 billion dollars he can easily do this to the EU and they know it
Interesting.
"Digital militias", the rebel armies of 21st Century life.
Just crazy, Brazilian judge Alexandre de Morales has his feelings hurt by the equivalent of mean tweets & nuttin’ about breaking the law.
They can block X if they want. If they’re so stupid they don’t know how, they can consult the Communists in China.
Right. That's not going to be good for business.
Of course the point is not to block X; the point is to force Musk to comply.
Justice Moraes is right up there in the Joe Stalin League.
“...the point is to force Musk to comply.”
The best part is that Elon Musk can tell Alexandre de Moraes to go f himself with a battle mace!
They could block X in Brazil, but if posters are allowed to put anything they want on X by posting from other countries, including damning evidence like Wikileaks hosted, the politicians in Brazil would soon be replaced by politicians who don't want to ban X from Brazil.
GOOD... DO NOT capitulate or compromise on principles. The “go along to get along” model is absolute weakness in these times.
Needs to shut down Starlink too!
the other social media companies are onboard with censorship
Musk’s X is sticking out like a sore thumb
so obvious he is an enemy of the tyrannical states
Why is Elon doing it voluntarily? Wouldn’t it be better, garner greater attention and sympathy to the cause, if Elon made the judge shut him down. The judge could be compared even more to Hitler
So he is not responsible legally for what is being posted on X if he decided to shut it down in Brazil.
He's only removing the X offices there (why are they there anyway, advertising?) because the judge has threatened to make hostages of X employees. X will still be available to Brazilians over the Internet.
How about no Starlink service as well?
“Why is Elon doing it voluntarily? Wouldn’t it be better, garner greater attention and sympathy to the cause, if Elon made the judge shut him down. The judge could be compared even more to Hitler”
if you had read the article, you would have seen that the judge was preparing to arrest and jail Musk’s lawyers and employees, so Musk HAD to close his Brazilian offices and remove his employees from Brazil ... X is still available in Brazil via something called the world wide Internet, just no physical offices will be in Brazil now ...
Cut the “Starliner” loose from the ISS and let it burn up on re-entry. It’s junk. It is not worth the risk.
From an article published ten days ago by the same paper, attached as “related”:
“The OIG found a low level of skill among production workers. Low staff retention was another issue, attributed to two factors: pay that’s lower than industry standards, and the New Orleans location of the facility – which made it hard to attract talented workers.”
So... DEI strikes again.
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