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• DevX Rashan Dixon on x

  Brazil's top court challenges Musk's X

• @gergelyorosz_ Gergely Orosz on threads

  A company ignoring court orders and not having representation in a country risks a ban.  You can argue if the court's order is legal - and challenge it.  But w/o such a challenge (and w no legal representation) what was Brazil to do?  Pretend it's ok to ignore their legal system?…

• @larakate14 @larakate14 on threads

  Twitter's top markets: 1.  US: tells advertisers to go fuck themselves.  2. UK: incites a near civil war with racist misinformation.  3. Brazil manages to get kicked out altogether.  Ladies and gentlemen business genius Elon Musk.

• @lorakolodny Lora Kolodny on threads

  i cannot tell you how big the backlash would be in the USA if government suspended a social network temporarily BUT also charged people hige fines for using vpns or other means of accessing the banned platform. but it would be mayhem. this i believe. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @andrealessi André Alessi on threads

  Hours after the judge's order to ban access to Twitter in Brasil was published, Bluesky's servers are getting hammered.

• @the.morning.constitutional @the.morning.constitutional on threads

  It's interesting how Elon Musk's position on this issue depends on whether he agrees with a country's politics or not.

• @lorakolodny Lora Kolodny on threads

  It's not solely for failure to comply with this one rule - there's a longer history of X at Musk's direction defying Brazil supreme court orders including to take down accounts that were posting political misinformation and content aimed at harming democratic institutions in Braz…

• @quillmatiq Anuj Ahooja on threads

  Your favorite social network could make decisions that make it impossible to use the service where you live.  If that happens, you lose not only access to the site but, more importantly, the community you worked so hard to build. …

• @johannes.ernst Johannes Ernst on threads

  And so it begins.  —  https://apnews.com/...

• @crumbler Casey Newton on threads

  It's a big week for tech CEOs learning you actually have to pay attention when the government demands something from you.  (Even in cases like this where the court's motives are complicated and not entirely pure)  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...

• @bsky.app @bsky.app on bluesky

  Brazil, you're setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky!  🥇  —  Brasil, você está estabelecendo novos recordes de atividade no Bluesky!  🥇

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo-judge in Brazil is destroying it for political purposes

• @iohk_charles Charles Hoskinson on x

  The consequences of censorship and why decentralization matters. While Brazil has silenced our brothers and sisters on X, their work will still stand and matter to us all. We will see their delegates at the convention, and I can not wait to recruit many Brazilians to help us

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Just a reminder that you can always access this platform via https://x.com/, even on your phone. No app is needed. Now would also be a good time to download a VPN in case you get blocked.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  We willl begin publishing the long list of @Alexandre's crimes, along with the specific Brazilian laws that he broke tomorrow. Obviously, he does not need to abide by US law, but he does need to abide by his own country's laws. He is a dictator and a fraud, not a justice.

• @zanfa @zanfa on x

  @X I don't need power, I need money to pay Alexander's fines

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  X has now been blocked in Brazil for not complying with court orders to suspend the accounts of Brazilian users spreading right wing disinformation. This is in contrast to the company complying with similar directives from the Indian government earlier this year. [image]

• @tedcruz Ted Cruz on x

  Brazil is banning X for one reason: to suppress free speech and thought. Unsurprisingly, Lula supports this decision, because he too seeks to ban free speech and thought. Biden courted Lula, celebrated his election, and called him a personal friend. That too is unsurprising. The

• @pedrohcgs Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna on x

  We will now see how much censorship has been going on in Brazil!! Brazil is a weird place where Judges these days also legislate. So don't come to me with “this is the law”...

• @ballouxfrancois Prof Francois Balloux on x

  The @X ban in Brazil is what I had in mind when I wrote the thread below. I guess the EU and UK may eventually follow suite. This would be bad, but it feels largely unavoidable if Elon Musk persisted in his efforts to disseminate / push content illegal in those jurisdictions. 1/

• @brendancarrfcc Brendan Carr on x

  On Brazilian Justice de Moreas's order shutting down X: The text of his 51-page decision is far more concerning and sweeping than the headlines suggest. de Moreas's own words make clear that he is attempting to strike a broader blow against free speech and in favor of

• @ballouxfrancois Prof Francois Balloux on x

  I'm in effect a free speech absolutist. Yet, I believe the current lack of / inconsistent moderation of Twitter / X is a disaster, as it will eventually lead to less freedom for everyone. This is to me a worse problem than its current effects on undermining social cohesion. 1/

• @prestonjbyrne Preston Byrne on x

  What Brazil is doing to X - shutting down a publisher - is the reason the First Amendment exists. England and the EU have a long history of shutting down publishers that host disfavored thought. That's why it can be said the U.S. has free speech, and these other places don't.

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  Serious question: why did X go along with this but is now doing the opposite in Brazil? I'm sure the situations on the ground are different but ... how? [image]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  I keep telling people that this guy @alexandre is the dictator of Brazil, NOT a judge. He just wears that as a costume. He has supreme executive, judicial and legislative power, aka dictator. The cloak he wears is to trick fools in the West into thinking that he's a judge.

• @marionawfal Mario Nawfal on x

  🇧🇷SEARCHES FOR VPN IN BRAZIL SKYROCKET Since August 30, searches on Google for the term VPN in Brazil have exploded, coinciding with the country's ban of X. VPNs allow users to access services outside their own country by making their location appear to be in another country. [im…

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  As of today, X is already blocked by many if not most telephone and internet service providers in Brazil. The most shocking part is how Brazil's authoritarian censorship judge, Alexandre de Moraes, also invented a new law that fines anyone using a VPN to access X $10,000/day.

• @noahpinion Noah Smith on x

  Quick, everybody make fun of Brazil while Twitter is banned there! Like, bruh, how did y'all end up with a Romance language that sounds like a Slavic language? How did that even happen

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  Brazil's PT — Lula's party — continues to post political campaign messages on X long after X is banned in Brazil, and even after Lula said yesterday he supports X's banning in Brazil. Strange, no?

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  Musk and Brazil, Durov and France... I wrote about how, for better or worse, democracies are now striking back against social media companies that once enjoyed a presumption of immunity from the consequences of the speech they hosted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  𝕏 is the most used news source in Brazil. It is what the people want. Now, the tyrant de Voldemort is crushing the people's right to free speech.

• @albertwenger Albert Wenger on x

  A good reason for bullding decentralized networks, but we also urgently need a better discussion about moderation on social networks, see https://x.com/...

• @binarybits Timothy B. Lee on x

  Hopefully this is obvious but: 1. The US has the first amendment, which is rigorously upheld by the judiciary. 2. The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority. There is zero chance of Twitter being shut down or significantly censored under a Harris administration.

• @prestonjbyrne Preston Byrne on x

  This thing with X being banned in Brazil is the big one. This is it. If Brazil succeeds in beating X, the EU, UK, Australia, Canada will ban X next. If X beats Brazil, censorship regimes around the world will be shown to be toothless vs Americans, and rapidly fall.

• @matthiasellis Matthew Ellis on x

  Wait. Glenn Greenwald lives in Brazil lmfao

• @zedonarrival @zedonarrival on x

  watching all the brazil stan accounts say their goodbyes like it's the thanos snap

• @brendancarrfcc Brendan Carr on x

  On Brazilian Justice de Moreas's order shutting down X: The text of his 51-page decision is far more concerning and sweeping than the headlines suggest. de Moreas's own words make clear that he is attempting to strike a broader blow against free speech and in favor of

• @davidmackau David Mack on x

  rip “come to brazil” (2006-2024)

• @adamscochran Adam Cochran on x

  ...what? Guys, countries have laws. Private companies who want to operate in that market need to follow those laws. When you repeatedly break those, you don't get to operate there.. Not every fucking thing is some wild crusade or global conspiracy.

• @shaunmmaguire Shaun Maguire on x

  In the same week we had the owner of Telegram get arrested in France And X get banned in Brazil, with broader threats against Elon's other company's Free speech is very much under attack

• @shaunmmaguire Shaun Maguire on x

  The west is 3 months away from being lost Canada, France and Brazil are already gone

• @shaunmmaguire Shaun Maguire on x

  Democracy is dying before our eyes Fight now, before it's too late

• @ianbremmer Ian Bremmer on x

  brazil supreme court banning twitter/x is domestic political boost for bolsonaro (who hadn't been doing well of late).

• @bluesky @bluesky on x

  this is what a social network looks like without brazil https://bsky.app/... [image]

• @chrchristensen Christian Christensen on x

  Interesting how the only “Orwellian” laws Musk hates are the ones he doesn't like in countries he's willing to criticise: UK, France, Brazil. Yet he's spectacularly silent about far more repressive laws in countries like China, Turkey, India and X investor Saudi Arabia.

• @chrchristensen Christian Christensen on x

  You know what's really “Orwellian”? The richest man in the world using his private global media platform to convince people that left-wing Social Democrat Orwell was a right-wing Libertarian.

• @brndxix @brndxix on x

  learning that twitter is getting shut down because political disinformation is illegal in brazil makes this so much funnier [image]

• @chrchristensen Christian Christensen on x

  Musk: “Twitter follows the laws of the countries it works in.” Brazil: “Thanks. Here is our law.” Musk: “I refuse to recognise that law and will use my wealth and power to smear and undermine your country.”

• @bluesky @bluesky on x

  it's easier to DM on bluesky than on excel🫡 follow @notgwendalupe on bsky here: https://notgwendalupe.bsky.social/ https://bsky.app/...

• @notgwendalupe @notgwendalupe on x

  Brazil, i'll see you guys in Excel [image]

• @lindayax Linda Yaccarino on x

  This is a sad day for X users around the world, especially those in Brazil, who are being denied access to our platform. I wish it did not have to come to this - it breaks my heart. The Brazilian Constitution says, “Any and all censorship of a political, ideological and artistic

• @timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x

  I believe in liberty, in free speech, and in due process of law, all of which are under threat around the world. If Brazilians are indeed outcast from this public forum by their government in the next 24 hours, remember what they took from you. May we meet again in better times!

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  The expression of support from the US embassy is appreciated. Indeed, without free speech, the public cannot express their thoughts or know the truth of the situation, making it impossible to vote with accurate knowledge.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  They're shutting down the #1 source of truth in Brazil

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  musk going head to head with Brazilian judge by pulling the service offline reminds of meta playbook in Australia with its “pay for news” stalemate (the plan is to get users to be mad enough that they push back against the government on the company's behalf) well-trodden path

• @jihoz_axie @jihoz_axie on x

  It's a sad day for our Brazilian community. I'm sure they will be back soon. In the meantime, what's the best whatsapp group for me to join to hang out with you all? DM me on Discord. My discord is open.

• @x @x on x

  power to the people in 🇧🇷 & everywhere else

• @djrothkopf David Rothkopf on x

  Wouldn't it be nice if this were just a preview of things to come and the proprietor here was finally about to enter the FAFO phase of his life.

• @levelsio @levelsio on x

  This is so insane: - Brazil has banned X - Brazil will fine anyone $8,000 per day if they see them use X via VPN Brazilians fight back against this! 🇧🇷💪 Lutem!

• @willguyatt Will Guyatt on x

  Looks like the Brazilian regulator now has to force ISPs to block X within 24 hours. They are also threatening fines to consumers using VPNs to access it....

• r/inthenews r on reddit

  Brazil starts blocking social media platform X amid a dispute with Elon Musk

• r/MarchAgainstNazis r on reddit

  Brazil starts blocking social media platform X amid a dispute with Elon Musk

• r/worldnews r on reddit

  Musk's X suspended in Brazil after disinformation row

• r/teslainvestorsclub r on reddit

  Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk's X after it missed deadline |  X

• r/NPR r on reddit

  Brazil starts blocking social media platform X amid a dispute with Elon Musk

• r/Journalism r on reddit

  Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk's X after it missed deadline

• r/EnoughMuskSpam r on reddit

  Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative

• r/technology r on reddit

  Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative

• r/technews r on reddit

  X to be banned in Brazil

• r/VaushV r on reddit

  Top Brazilian judge orders suspension of X platform in Brazil amid feud with Musk

• r/elonmusk r on reddit

  Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk's X after it missed deadline

• r/news r on reddit

  Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk's X after it missed deadline

• r/InternationalNews r on reddit

  Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk's X after it missed deadline

• r/Fauxmoi r on reddit

  Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk's X after it missed deadline

• r/musked r on reddit

  Brazil's Supreme Court orders suspension of Elon Musk's X

• r/law r on reddit

  Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative

• r/Twitter r on reddit

  Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative

• r/worldnews r on reddit

  Judge Bans X in Brazil After Musk Refuses to Name Representative

• @digiphile Alex Howard on threads

  Brazil's suspension of X is being debated in apocalyptic terms.  There's nuance missing, perhaps because media have forgotten Internet freedom debates from 2012.  —  Musk could have responded to court orders from Brazil, India, or other nations by removing tweets locally, but kee…

• @esqueer_ Alejandra Caraballo on threads

  Elon clearly wants to launch a coup against Lula. “we will coup whoever we want.”

• @digiphile Alex Howard on threads

  Musk is accountable for what happened to X in Brazil.  His ludicrous claims about a “dictatorship” don't pass muster.  His actions & rhetoric are part of a pattern & practice of him selectively defending the content & accounts of the global far-right in Brazil, India, & the Unite…

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on threads

  That does not make Musk any less hypocritical as he blocks and censors according to his selfish and piggish whims, but the judge has to operate in a world in which we need to find legal ways to deal with such obvious chaos agents whose own self interest trumps all else.  It's har…

• @lorakolodny Lora Kolodny on threads

  Elon Musk calls for the end of foreign aid to Brazil after the US ally's highest court ordered a suspension of X in the countrt until the social network is in compliance with federal laws there.

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on threads

  The problem, much like Trump, it is in Elon's interest to be as nuts as possible, but the judge cannot play a legal game of chicken without it degenerating into chaos.  Which is Musk's pig-wrestling goal here.  That he operates totally differently in countries where it suits his …

• @kateaconger Kate Conger on threads

  Brazil has been ahead of the curve in fighting misinformation, but its ban of X has some wondering if it has gone too far (w/ our incredible Rio bureau chief @jnicas) https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @cpoetzscher Cameron Poetzscher on x

  “To combat disinformation, Brazil gave one judge broad power to police the internet. Now...some are wondering whether that was a good idea” Giving the govt censorship power is always bad. Giving that power to a single official is even worse. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @jeffreyatucker Jeffrey A Tucker on x

  This article in the NYT presumes that Brazil's dictator Alexandre de Moraes had every good intention, was only targeting falsehoods and thereby protecting democracy. The only concern is that he has gone too far. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @lucasellernyc Lucas Eller on x

  🇺🇸 Combating disinformation, one of the horrible things social network platforms have brought to the world without any care for fact check, is as big a challenge as climate change. The United States should follow the example of Brazil. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @the.brain.worm @the.brain.worm on threads

  brazil Twitter was responsible for a lot of communities, the site isn't prepared for the fallout. brazillians have also been a rising location for contractor engineering hires and i am willing to bet my wormy body x has a few contractors who are about to have a problem working on…

• @alfredo_liberal @alfredo_liberal on threads

  Brazil taught us how to combat misinformation if we did what they did we would be better off

• @lindadominguez637 Linda Dominguez on threads

  To the people of Brazil, Welcome to Threads!  We're nice here.  Sejam bem-vindos

• @goldengateblond Shauna Wright on threads

  hello literally everyone in brazil

• @irishpolyglot Benny Lewis on threads

  Reason number 42,069 to not use X is that I'm in Brazil right now 😂

• @wolfgangbremer Wolfgang Bremer on threads

  👋 Hi, literally everyone in Brazil!

• @mediumboi Ryan Simkins on threads

  Welcome to Threads, Brazilian friends.💙 We're a lot nicer than Twitter here.

• @maureenhastings4 Maureen Hastings on threads

  Ah, yes.  Welcome Brazil!

• @technicallymims Christopher Mims on threads

  Bluesky seems to be struggling with the massive influx of Brazilians after X was banned there.  “Discover” tab is taking awhile to load; “Popular with friends” now seems either broken or switched off

• @tedunderwoodillinois Ted Underwood on threads

  That's a big chunk for Bluesky, and the surge is not over.  It's going to be a different social network in a week, I think: less academics and left shitposting, more fandoms and pop culture.  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...

• @bsky.app @bsky.app on bluesky

  wow... welcome to the ONE MILLION new users in the last three days!!!  🎉  —  uau... bem-vindos ao UM MILHÃO de novos usuários nos últimos três dias!!!  🎉

• @mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick on bluesky

  very time some Elon fan tweets a similar thing (often misleading) about ExTwitter topping some random chart, he immediately insists that the site is the only source for news.  —  So, I guess we can now claim that here.  [embedded post]

• @pfrazee.com Paul Frazee on bluesky

  normally a third of users post each day, which is actually a high percentage, and that's currently at 50%

• @rincewind.run Micah on bluesky

  one of the really fun parts of the Brazilian takeover is watching a bunch of folks go “I don't get this but it seems neat so let me jump in anyway”  —  that is one of my favorite internet energies, so thank you to our new Brazilian friends for introducing the rest of us to their …

• @darthputinkgb.bsky.social Darth Putin on bluesky

  I'd like to welcome to Bluesky all my loyal serfs from Brazil.

• @pfrazee.com Paul Frazee on bluesky

  We added more image servers.  Hopefully that will fix the slow load times for pictures.

• @colormints.bsky.social @colormints.bsky.social on bluesky

  the brazilian miku trend overlapping with both brazil getting forced off twitter and miku's birthday is such a curious timing honestly

• @why.bsky.team @why.bsky.team on bluesky

  Also pretty cool to note that we haven't added a single new server yet.  We're working on getting some new PDS instances up, but those are relatively small and cheap, everything else is scaling in place.  —  Pretty huge advertisement for running your own hardware (and for AMD for…

• @treacherous.tech @treacherous.tech on bluesky

  Dunk on Elon all you like but do try to not end your country's internet freedom rights in the process.  [embedded post]

• @bsky.app @bsky.app on bluesky

  over 500k new users in the last two days 🤯

• @tomphillips.bsky.social Tom Phillips on bluesky

  I hear some Brazilians saying they can still access Twitter but on my 2 connections it remains as dead as a dodô 🦤☠️

• @lolennui.bsky.social Amy Ash on bluesky

  bluesky has boys from brazil, twitter has Boys From Brazil

• @robpegoraro.com Rob Pegoraro on bluesky

  Interesting order of social networks in the post now pinned to the Xitter profile of Brazil's president.  If a government wants to express its disapproval of a platform, taking its business elsewhere > ordering ISPs to block the service and threatening to fine people for using VP…

• @samuel.bsky.team @samuel.bsky.team on bluesky

  this is a brazilian website now [embedded post]

• @rudyfraser.com @rudyfraser.com on bluesky

  You've heard it from all the other devs but yeah, Blacksky almost doubled in new users, the database is at 100% cpu usage, and total daily visits has eclipsed every other major US news event this year.  —  Bom dia, Blacksky Brasil 🇧🇷

• @andylevy.net @andylevy.net on bluesky

  a bunch of u are sucking up to all the new brazilian bluesky users in a cheap and tawdry attempt to get more followers and i gotta say that first of all it's very unseemly and second of all i highly doubt it'll work because they're far too intelligent and attractive to fall for s…

• @mackuba.eu Kuba Suder on bluesky

  Ok language stats are completely insane at the moment :D  —  24h:  —  Portuguese 73.7% !!  (3.25M posts)  —  English 16.5%  —  Japanese 5.5%  —  German 1.6%  —  #BlueskyStats [embedded post]

• @mynintendonews.bsky.social @mynintendonews.bsky.social on bluesky

  A big welcome to the Brazilian Nintendo fan community 🤗🇧🇷

• @thorgisarcade.bsky.social Aaron on bluesky

  Bluesky today has that energy of “My friends and I just got fired but screw it, we're now going to finally open that bar we always talked about.”  —  Like the situation sucks and a lot of people are scared of what it could mean, but maybe we can actually get this crazy idea to wo…

• @thedamnthinguy.com Vic Regis on bluesky

  Twitter was really ingrained into my muscle memory because I keep trying to open the app without even realizing lol

• @eikofried.bsky.social Eiko Fried on bluesky

  GOOD MORNING BRAZIL 🇧🇷 ;)  —  Sorry for your loss of the blue bird, but you'll find an amazing community here, too!  BlueSky did a lot in recent months, there's PM and gifs and feeds which can really help take agency over how your feed should look like.  —  E.g. the science feed,…

• @mackuba.eu Kuba Suder on bluesky

  Language stats from last 24h: Portuguese 41.7%, English 31.4%, Japanese 15.8% 😳 #BlueskyStats 🇧🇷

• @chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn on bluesky

  Note to those fleeing MuskWorld: my view - Bluesky is the best platform for discussion.  Threads is fine if you just want to broadcast into the algorithmic void but it's awful if you want to talk about a subject.

• r/Twitter r on reddit

  With X Blocked, Brazilians Find New Homes for Their Thoughts |  The platform went dark across Brazil on Saturday, sending online commentators to new digital town squares.

• @nickburns Nick Burns on x

  My profile of the judge who just banned this website in Brazil https://americasquarterly.org/ ...

• @brazilbrian Brian Winter on x

  Our profile of the powerful judge who shut down X in Brazil today, and why even some supporters think he's gone too far: https://www.americasquarterly.org/ ...

• UPROXX Flisadam Pointer on x

  Brazil's Reported X (Twitter) Ban Has Massive Music Fan Pages Bidding A Sorrowful Farewell To The Platform

• @celozaga Celo Zaga on threads

  Bluesky is TOP 1 in the Brazil App Store, Twitter users don't really trust Meta after all.

• @lorakolodny Lora Kolodny on threads

  Quoting from g1 globo, Brazil-based news site so you can see it's not just my reading: “Initially, Moraes gave a deadline of 5 days for companies like Apple and Google to stop offering the X app in their online stores.  The text also stated that these companies should not allow V…

• @igb@mastodon.hccp.org @igb@mastodon.hccp.org on mastodon

  This is what's known in the industry as a “reverse Orkut”.  —  https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @kenwhite.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social on bluesky

  Imposing consequences on a web site for breaking a country's laws is defensible.  Imposing consequences on citizens of the country for trying to access the web site strikes me as pretty totalitarian.  —  Like imagine if the TikTok ban was followed up by a law making it illegal to…

• @cathygellis.bsky.social Cathy Gellis on bluesky

  No matter what you think of Musk, such a penalty for USING A MEDIUM TO COMMUNICATE is not consistent with a free society.  [embedded post]

• @mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick on bluesky

  Okay, here's my writeup of the Brazilian block order (yes, including the *temporary* amendment suspending the VPN block).  It's still absolutely crazy.  No one should be in favor of this. www.techdirt.com/2024/08/30/ b...

• @jasonycw.github.io Jason Yu on bluesky

  I guess we'll see a lot more activities here and #Threads for the #BrazilGP this year.  —  #F1 teams' admins and drivers remember to add the $9K/day expenses for that weekend to keep posting on #Twitter 😂 [embedded post]

• @lorak.bsky.social Lora Kolodny on bluesky

  “...The suspension of this part, in his view, avoids any unnecessary and reversible disruptions to other companies.” noticias.stf.jus.br/postsnoticia... scroll to the end ^ for link to 2nd order filing which you need to translate from Brazilian Portuguese unless you speak this be…

• @lorak.bsky.social Lora Kolodny on bluesky

  “...removing it from their virtual stores, as well as applications that allow the use of VPN.In a new decision, Minister Alexandre suspended this section due to the possibility of ‘X Brasil’ making a statement in the proceedings and fully complying with the court orders...

• @lorak.bsky.social Lora Kolodny on bluesky

  From the STF's press release on its second order (suspending X in Brazil) using Google translate from Portuguese to English: “The rapporteur had initially ordered Apple and Google to adopt obstacles to prevent the use of the X application on iOS and Android systems, in addition t…

• @lorak.bsky.social Lora Kolodny on bluesky

  Updated this story.  STF, Brazil's highest court, issued a second order suspending some measures from the first order.  X is still suspended in Brazil, but the court is not requiring app stores to block users from downloading X, and to block certain VPN downloads, in 5 days' time…

• @kenwhite.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social on bluesky

  /2 I should say, is defensible if the site does business in that country.  Not, I think, if it doesn't.

• @mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick on bluesky

  So, even more bizarre... a week ago, Apple appeared to block a bunch of VPNs in the App Store in Brazil with some suggestion it may have been connected to this.  But... that was a week ago. www.technadu.com/35-vpn-repor...  [embedded post]

• @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Sarah McLaughlin on bluesky

  Brazil blocked X today and Justice Moraes is threatening “that anyone caught using a VPN to gain access to X in Brazil would face a fine of nearly $9,000 a day.”

• @alexandrefiles Alexandre Files on x

  Today, we begin shining a light on the abuses of Brazilian law committed by Alexandre de Moraes. We have been forced to share these orders because there is no transparency from the court, and the people who are being censored have no recourse to appeal. Our own appeals have been

• @mysk_co @mysk_co on x

  The top two grossing apps in the Utilities category on the Brazilian App Store are VPN apps: [image]

• @george_chen George Chen on x

  Can you still use VPN to access X in Brazil? Otherwise I guess Brazil will soon need to ask China for help to install Great Firewall nationwide. X has a lot to improve but free speech and free internet are now also under attack. Ban is simply not the solution to the problem.

• @sallymayweather @sallymayweather on x

  Set your VPNs to Brazil. Overload the censors.

• @yashar Yashar Ali on x

  This is outrageous... The New York Times confirms that the Brazilian judge who has ordered the suspension of X/Twitter has also said that anyone caught using a VPN to gain access to X in Brazil would face a fine of nearly $9,000 a day. Threatening people with penalties for

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  In his original order banning X, Brazil's authoritarian censorship judge Moraes ordered Apple and Google not only to ban X from their stores, but also ban all VPN programs. Now he retreated on that, but using VPNs to access X in Brazil is still illegal, with a $10k/day fine:

• @marionawfal Mario Nawfal on x

  🚨🇧🇷 BREAKING: BRAZIL SUPREME COURT AUTHORIZES VPN USE, MAINTAINS FINES FOR ACCESSING X Minister Alexandre de Moraes of Brazil's Supreme Court reversed his decision to block VPNs, allowing Apple and Google to keep VPN apps available. However, the daily fine of R$50,000 for [image]

• @chrispavlovski Chris Pavlovski on x

  @TimSweeneyEpic Big moment. Google will definitely fold, but I have hope that Apple won't. Tim, DM me if you read this. I'm the CEO of Rumble.

• @mysk_co @mysk_co on x

  @TimSweeneyEpic X has a great Progressive Web App (PWA). All you need to get it to work is a VPN app, which can also be taken down by the App Store or Google Play.

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  !!!! In addition to ordering X banned in all of Brazil, Moraes also banned any citizens from accessing X using a VPN. He said any citizen found to access X in Brazil using a VPN, they will be fined US$ 10,000 per day. The pure face of tyranny: [image]

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  The group of countries that Brazil is about to join in banning the use of VPN's to access prohibited sites: [image]

• @timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x

  That 5-day countdown now begins. Will the Apple App Store start blocking Twitter? Will Google Play Store? History is watching.

• @brucedaisley Bruce Daisley on x

  A serious escalation here. If you use a VPN to continue using X in Brazil there's a daily fine of £6750 coming your way.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  The oppressive regime in Brazil is so afraid of the people learning the truth that they will bankrupt anyone who tries

• @chrispavlovski Chris Pavlovski on x

  Brazil no longer has Rumble and from media reports, they will no longer have X. World powers don't want Rumble, they don't want X, they don't want Telegram. They want to control information and our companies do not allow them to. There are no other large companies fighting for

• @cb_doge @cb_doge on x

  Brazil has fallen. The Supreme Court orders the suspension of 𝕏. → 𝕏 to be taken down in 24 hours. → AppStore and PlayStore have been told to remove the 𝕏 app within 5 days. → Anyone using 𝕏 via VPN will face fines of up to ~$8,800 [image]

• @marionawfal Mario Nawfal on x

  🚨🇧🇷DE MORAES ORDERS GOOGLE AND APPLE TO REMOVE X FROM APP STORES IN BRAZIL In a continued assault on free speech and in his decision to ban X across Brazil, De Moraes also ordered Google and Apple to remove the media platform from their app stores in the country within 5 days. [i…

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  BREAKING: Brazil's authoritarian censorship judge, Alexandre de Moraes, orders X banned in all of Brazil within 24 hours. Also ordered Google and Apple to remove X from its stores within 5 days.

• r/BlueskySocial r on reddit

  Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky |  The Verge

• r/inthenews r on reddit

  Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders

• @renee.diresta Renee DiResta on threads

  Twitter stopped contributing to the Lumen database in April of last year after it became clear they were responding to takedown requests by Modi by simply taking things down.  The coverage embarrassed Musk, so he became less transparent.  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...

• @motorcityadam Adam Cook on threads

  Pretty clear that Musk wants Bolsonaro re-installed and Musk wants to leverage Twitter, by design, to encourage Bolsonaristas to overthrow the elected government violently.  I will never support a TikTok ban where there are *allegations* of covert influence from a foreign governm…

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on threads

  X has now been blocked in Brazil for not complying with court orders to suspend the accounts of Brazilian users spreading right wing disinformation.  This is in contrast to the company complying with similar directives from the Indian government earlier this year. https://www.bbc…

• @alexwild@mastodon.online Alex Wild on mastodon

  Masnick at Techdirt has thoughts:  —  https://www.techdirt.com/...

• @kenwhite.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social on bluesky

  Elon Musk believes it is outrageous for autocracies to be run by judges instead of by super-rich techbrahs [embedded post]

• @mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick on bluesky

  It's incredible how many people will throw out principles just because they really don't like someone.  That's when your principles actually matter.  —  And if you incorrectly cite Karl Popper in response to this it's an automatic block.  [embedded post]

• @mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick on bluesky

  I posted last night about why I thought both sides looked bad in Elon's fight with Brazil, and a lot of people (especially in Brazil) didn't like that.  So I've written a longer explanation.  The key point: compare Elon/Brazil to old Twitter/India. www.techdirt.com/2024/08/29/ e.…

• @kenwhite.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social on bluesky

  “Anything done to Musk is defensible” is tiresome unserious wankery just like “anything done to Trump is defensible.”

• @chup.blakereid.org Blake E. Reid on bluesky

  There's a lot of attention on the VPN issue, but if this translation is accurate, it's quite striking how much more aggressive and sweeping the Brazilian X order is relative to the pending U.S. TikTok law—particularly the application to backbone providers, ISPs, and (maybe?) oper…

• @dcurtis Dustin Curtis on x

  This is the best overview of the Brazil/Musk/X dispute I've seen, and it appears well sourced. https://www.techdirt.com/... (Note to Techdirt: your choice to disrespect X by calling it “exTwitter” in this article does nothing to help the story or your readers, and it damages your

• @marcelvanhattem Marcel van Hattem on x

  In Brazil, we do not have X anymore since midnight. I am tweeting this with VPN. This tweet may cost me almost 10,000 USD according to the decision of tyrant @alexandre de Moraes, friends with @LulaOficial : every Brazilian that post on X from now on will be fined R$ 50,000

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  The current Brazilian administration likes to wear the cloak of a free democracy, while crushing the people under its boot

• @dcurtis Dustin Curtis on x

  The “X is the real and only truth, and all other information is lies” talk from Musk and others on this platform is extremely dangerous and Orwellian. In fact, it's even worse than 1984. In the book, truth was what the party said the truth was — it was organized propaganda,