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© Thomson Reuters 2024.Venezuela's Maduro blocks X access in country for 10 days
By Vivian Sequera and Mayela Armas CARACAS©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Some dude
The intricacies of the Venezuelan election aside, getting rid of X/Twitter would be a worthwhile theme for international cooperation.
I think the UK is currently in a perfect place to, at the very least, slam huge restrictions on X/Twitter, if not just ban it outright. Musk, and the far right agitators he gives a voice to, have seen that the vast majority of the UK public won't accept violent far right protests. That is in itself a good thing, but if X were to be banned, then the said agitators would have to find a different platform for their rhetoric, and there are few with the reach of X/Twitter, even with people apparently leaving in droves.
Alternatively, countries could use the "wait it out" strategy. The more extreme and ridiculous Musk gets, the more he ensures that X/Twitter will alienate regular users (if there are any left) and become more and more of a meeting place for the extremists and radicals, and by that very definition the number of users will crater, leaving it as an ultra-right wing echo chamber with very limited reach. In turn, the advertising money will dry up, and the negative spiral will just keep going.
RichardPearce
You know that in a few months time, anyone claiming that the 2024 American election was rigged/stolen who also claimed that the 2020 election was rigged/stolen is going to be asked to admit that they were wrong about that before their new claims are treated as almost certainly false.
Yet somehow those claiming that the 2024 Venezuelan election was rigged/stolen also claimed that the 2013 Venezuelan election was, but those claims have been as thoroughly debunked as the ones about the 2020 American election, and are not being asked to admit they were wrong about that before their present claims are taken seriously.
Indeed, they tend to repeat those false claims, and then those false claims are treated like they make their present claims true.
John
Lucky Venezuelans….
TaiwanIsNotChina
Criminal Maduro needs that smile wiped from his face.
TaiwanIsNotChina
No they have not. Elections in the US are at the local level, so you'd have have a conspiracy involving all 50 states, secretaries of state, attorney generals, and judges to have real issues.
Eastmann
ok and so what?
EU is blocking RT for example...everyone protects own interests.
virusrex
"Let them fight"
TaiwanIsNotChina
It's a shame they can't both receive concussions.
TokyoLiving
Excellent, well done..
Keep going Maduro..
Latinoamerican dignity !!..
TokyoLiving
Neither the criminal sanctions of the US, nor the failed coups of the opposition, nothing has erased the smile from Maduro's face, much less your tantrum..
Ken
Kinda smart, Musk gets joy from seeing chaos and confusion happening around the world and it is disturbing. I think X should be banned in the US for the amount of misinformation that flows freely throughout the form of social media and find some way to force him to sell it like what they wanted to do with TikTok. Musks Twitter is more of a threat than TikTok even if TikTok is or is not spyware
Bellflower
The amount of fake news and anti-Maduro propaganda spread by Musk and X was off the charts after this election.
Probably the most memorable one was the "stolen ballot boxes" video, which was quickly shown to be some guys somewhere stealing air conditioners.
burgers and beers
The amount of fake news and anti-Maduro propaganda spread by Musk and X was off the charts after this election. Probably the most memorable one was the "stolen ballot boxes" video, which was quickly shown to be some guys somewhere stealing air conditioners.
Yep, that was a funny one;)
"Criminal Maduro needs that smile wiped from his face."
Who unilaterally decided Maduro is a criminal? Washington " Juan Guaido is our guy " higher ups?
John
It’s like watching a wife-beater and a child-molester in a cage match.
Whom to root for? Maybe give them both flamethrowers and enjoy the show?
Chairman Rexton
Funny how the left adored Twitter until Musk bought it. Now it's the devil's messenger.
Cephus
Their rules their problem, its Venezuela for Venezuelans. However issues on current and future elections need to addressed transparently. Bearing in mind recently we had global disruption in airlines, hospitals, banks including Voter registration verifications machines.
Speed
Maduro is a thief. He needs to be deposed peacefully or violently.
Cephus
"Maduro is a thief. He needs to be deposed peacefully or violently."@ Speed
That really brave and easier to say from a far, right?
RichardPearce
Democracy Now did a simultaneous interview with one of the 'Maduro lost' fanatics and one of the independent international election monitors.
Like a simultaneous interview with an antivaaxer and a doctor, or Trump and almost anyone else, the contrast between irrationality and reason was stark.
WoodyLee
Mr. Musk needs to keep his NOSE out of politics , simple as that
PeaceIsReal
I don’t understand the connection and yet this man reminds me of Dr. Evil.
maybe I’m just underestimating him. He definitely seems to be tanking the county in a direction away from a fairly counted vote, and yet I could do some more reading on the subject.
I just love how this man presents as a scooby-doo hoodlum
bass4funk
Why? He has the money, power and influence, he can do what he wants. lol
Pukey2
I'm not surprised. Even I'm getting pretty sick of Musk - a total weirdo.
wallace
bass4funk
Mr. Musk needs to keep his NOSE out of politics , simple as that
Post fake videos. Post fake comments on X.
PeaceIsReal
Yup, that’s what it is. Maduro is a real-life unintentional satirical Bond villain.
“Venezuela's electoral authority proclaimed Maduro the winner of the July 28 presidential election with some 51% of the vote, although it has yet to produce the voting tallies.
The declaration sparked widespread accusations of fraud and protests which were promoted across social media. Local advocacy group the Venezuelan Observatory for Social Conflict reports at least 23 people have been killed in protests.”
totally legitimate.
somebody get him a hairless cat to stroke in his lap and let’s get those white sunglasses back on him, he’s totally reinventing Dr Evil.
Peter14
The guy lost the elections, scrambled to enforce a sham accounting of the vote to give himself a 51% victory. Waiting for people power to rid Venezuela of this disaster of a leader. He is a pretender.
theFu
Blocking X is a common sense way to drastically lower disinformation for every country.
Elections in the US are decentralized, monitored by 3 different parties (if not more), and counts are provided at the precinct level to the press as the counts occur, in the county elections offices. Counting of votes is decentralized on election day and overnight. Those are "unofficial" counts, but any non-trivial difference in the counts later would bring news organizations in to watch the re-count carefully. Decentralization is also why a recount can be completed in a day.
The people working the polls and the county election officials a not highly political. They aren't under any threat of violence by anyone. Additionally, they don't have any idea which way you will or did vote, besides what statistics for your home address would imply.
The USA isn't Venezuela or Russia.
Pukey2
peter14:
Where's the proof? And I'm not talking about propaganda from the western corporate media controlled by oligarchs. Funny how somebody 'lost' the election when USA doesn't like the guy. Who do you want in Venezuela? Juan Guaidó? The guy is hated in his country because every knows he's a US puppet, and so is the present opposition. USA needs to stop intefering with every single country on earth. They may control Australia, but that's no skin off my back.