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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Brazil blocks X after company refuses to name local representative amid feud with judge
By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and MAURICIO SAVARESE SAO PAULO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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TokyoLiving
Excellent, well done Brazil..
This is South American dignity against the US interventionism..
justsomeguy8008
The fact that he is planning on fining people for using a VPN to access X is really worrying. These are adults and having the government act like they are the parents of the people is not good in my opinion.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The US government is literally not involved.
vallum
Funny thing is that the Supreme Court used X to say they are blocking X.
https://x.com/STF_oficial/status/1829616971798778314
John
Too bad Elon.
Womp Womp, you weirdo.
Pukey2
taiwanchina:
FB, Google, X, Meta, the whole she-bang is now run by the US government. You're very naive if you think otherwise. They have done worse than Telegram and TikTok and yet these two are the only social media facing a ban in USA. Odd that they're also not controlled by USA. Coincidence?
virusrex
If that were the case there companies would not do anything against their interests, the open support of Musk for Trump is clear enough evidence he is not interested in being in good terms, much less being controlled by the current US government.
Fighto!
Still waiting for this be-wigged weirdo to criticise China for blocking X.
I wonder why he never does?
Pukey2
taiwanchina:
As an American you don't need to know anything about an ESTA, but ESTA applications now ask if you have a social media account. I believe it is no longer optional to ignore the question and you have to provide your account ID. I'm not 100% sure because it's been years since I went to USA, and, if I can help it, I hope I never have to go there again. To say that USA is authoritarian is putting it mildly.
Express sister
Turkey, India, and other right-wing governments: Musk, you must censor Twitter so that our opponents cannot get the heir message out in the election and our disinformation must be prioritised.
Musk: Well, what can I do? I must obey their laws.
Brazil: Our laws say you cannot publish political disinformation.
Musk: nnnnNNNOOOO i should be allowed to lie and scream racial slurs if I want muh freeze peach reeeeeeeeee
Hervé L'Eisa
Brazil has descended into a totalitarian dictatorship as this situation clearly exemplifies.
Fighto!
You spelt Communist China wrong.
But I guess some people would never dare criticise China's totalitarianism.
Jonathan Prin
Free speech is sacred and is part of fudamental laws.
Those who try to gag their opponents are worthless people.
WoodyLee
WELL DONE BRAZIL,
Public Safety is the national government top priority in any nation.
virusrex
Free speech is not being infringed by this measure, a person pushing for disinformation is being punished since his manipulation of the speech have consequences.
That would be Musk, that actively gags anybody that says anything he personally doesn't like, and deletes notes that evidence falsehoods on his own posts.
theFu
24 hours isn't a reasonable deadline to hire a capable, high-end, lawyer anywhere. Especially when the assets used to pay that lawyer are frozen. The judge is drunk with power. He blocked the way for the company to pay for legal representation, then complains that there isn't any legal representation. Idiot.
I'm not a fan of X, twitter, Musk, but a deadline of 1 hour is the same as 24 hours for something like this, unless he just wants someone to yell at. Musk should just line up 20 lawyers in Brazil to work 24-hours at a time for $2000 each, fixed price. Fire each one after 1 day. Bet that would make the judge happy.
TaiwanIsNotChina
He says while defending a country with one of the worst press freedom records in the world. Also the social media question is optional. Says it right on the form so you can stop hyperventilating and projecting.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Apparently they forgot to add the clause where they are not supposed to talk about it.
Pukey2
TaiwanChina:
America's press freedom isn't exactly near the top, even according to the pro-western Reporters without Borders.
The fact that the question is there AT ALL should be ringing alarm bells. If I were forced to go to USA, I'd actually make up an account because leaving it blank would attract more attention. You may enjoy the US government snooping into your private affairs, but many of us don't.
All I see in your post are excuses and deflections.
As they say about the US, every accusation is a confession.
TaiwanIsNotChina
In the top third and that was before Assange was released, Mr. Bottom. Is pro-western the way everything involving human rights is spun from your masters?
And yet the US doesn't have hired goons to follow journalists around.
And you would be within your rights to do that.
All I see your posts are apologies for the indefensible.
Sounds like the definition of the dictatorship brigade you promote.
Desert Tortoise
Yes, yes, the "dignity" of political corruption on a grand scale, shanty towns run by drug cartels, uncontrolled logging and mining, and impunity of the ruling party. So much dignity there.
Desert Tortoise
Not really. If the ruse was uncovered that would be falsifying a visa and could result in jail time.
I won't go to China any more because my visa shows me as retired with a side business renting out housing. The side business exists so not a complete lie. However, since the Chinese hacked OPM there is a good chance they saw my security clearance paperwork and know me from that. Much too big a risk to go there any more.
You might think CPB doesn't know about your social media but can you be certain? Especially if you are vocally anti american or vocally support certain groups the US views as "terrorists". Do you want to risk it?
theFu
The USgovt has ZERO, nothing, nada, to do with this story. This is about a Brazilian judge trying to illegally take money from 1 company for activities of a completely different company. How is that even allowed?