X says it's closing its operations in Brazil, claiming a judge threatened arrest if X didn't comply with “censorship orders”; the service remains available
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said today that it's ending operations in Brazil …
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Discussion
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@globalaffairs
@globalaffairs
on x
Last night, Alexandre de Moraes threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders. He did so in a secret order, which we share here to expose his actions. Despite our numerous appeals to the Supreme Court not being heard, [im…
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
on x
Due to demands by “Justice” @Alexandre in Brazil that would require us to break (in secret) Brazilian, Argentinian, American and international law, 𝕏 has no choice but to close our local operations in Brazil. He is an utter disgrace to justice.
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
on x
The decision to close the 𝕏 office in Brazil was difficult, but, if we had agreed to @alexandre's (illegal) secret censorship and private information handover demands, there was no way we could explain our actions without being ashamed.
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@esyudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky
on x
I continue to think Elon did the right thing by buying Twitter. Here we get a little glimpse of behind-the-scenes shit that almost no big company ever talks about. Even a little exact and concrete evidence like that is of good value for nailing down the world's hidden details.
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@ggreenwald
Glenn Greenwald
on x
@folha Rumble is already unavailable in all of Brazil. Moraes has blocked all of Telegram from being in Brazil before, only to re-instate once they censor everyone he demands. X is clearly on that path. The key: his censorship orders are all in secret, with no due process or tria…
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@jtlonsdale
Joe Lonsdale
on x
This is what courage looks like for a corporation.
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@adrianweckler
Adrian Weckler
on x
Start of X's regional (non-US) closures? X has pulled its operations from Brazil over clash with govt over content. It strongly clashes with EU on content, and is almost certain to get a big fine plus orders-to-reform later this year. ps 10 days ago, X hinted it could exit EU [im…
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@mehdirhasan
Mehdi Hasan
on x
When Erdogan and Modi threatened Twitter, Musk rolled over and said he had no option but to comply. But in Brazil he closes down operations. He didn't do that in Turkey or India. Interesting.
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@lindayax
Linda Yaccarino
on x
Incredibly sad day for the people of Brazil.
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r/brasil
r
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X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
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r/anime_titties
r
on reddit
X says it is closing Brazilian operations ‘effective immediately’
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r/technews
r
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X to close operations in Brazil ‘effective immediately’
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r
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X to close operations in Brazil ‘effective immediately’