This is the strange case of of X’s ban in Brazil.
The country’s Supreme Court justice, one Alexandre de Moraes, ordered that access to X be blocked and that anyone caught trying to use it via a VPN could be fined about $9000 a day!
The spectacular fallout between X and the country (well, the Justice) follows months of the justice and Elon Musk going at each other over censorship. Musk claims that orders from the justice to remove certain accounts on X are attempts to stifle conversative views in Brazil. He makes similar claims about conservative voice censorship in the media in his own country, the USA.
The Brazilian justice for his part, argues that Elon Musk’s X is a cesspool of “disinformation, hate speech and attacks on the democratic rule of law, violating the free choice of the electorate, by keeping voters away from real and accurate information.” He also referred to Musk as an outlaw.
The situation deteriorated in recent weeks when Musk declared that X would not comply with Justice Moraes’s court orders to suspend accounts. The justice then threatened to arrest X employees. Elon responded by pulling X employees from Brazil and shutting down the Brazil office. Moraes then gave the order to block X and this past Saturday, users of the app found the app wasn’t working.
Ofcourse the natural solution would be to install a VPN to continue using it. But the justice knew Brazilians would do this, so he baked in the $9k a day fine threat into the order.
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Varikupinda pesonari ava. When all else fails, Brazil is resorting to Dictatorship. How is banning certain accounts on X going to improve access to information 🤔. The sad thing is that the justice is probably following updates on X as well
BRICS vazhinji madictator, South Africa ingadova nani.
And guess who’s going to take a cue from this event? Yes the top man himself ED. We all so just how his party is very useless on social media engagement during the election when they set up groups on WhatsApp. And he’s relentlessly (read freely) attacked on twitter. But if this works out in Brazil then why not try and copy and paste it on Zimbabwe ( maybe during the election?)
On south Africa being a dictatorship country i think you’re rather being harsh. Ramaphosa knows when to stop. Besides, their electoral system is better, maybe not the best but its dependable.
But the biggest question is…. WHY ARE THESE GOVERNMENTS AFRAID OF TWITTER IN THE FIRST PLACE!?
Don’t be an idiot, if FBI had given the same order to Musk or Zuckerberg they would have complied..how many people were banned on Twitter.
I’m not going to defend Elon musk a guy wearing a baphomet suit on his profile pic..devil hidden in plain site preaching about democracy 😆😆😆
The Brazilian case is just a tip of the ice berg. With the advent of AI authorities vachaona fires. I myself am considering quiting Facebook cause of proliferation of AI generated content which makes stupid sense. It’s becoming worthless at times.
No way the government can monitor all private ISP , so Brazilian they will use VPNs to access Twitter
You forgot to add that Brazil seized/froze SpaceX’s accounts over this drama.
And many assets from other countries seized by the US
Brics is just a bag of nonsense, it’s all about certain bizarre practices