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@kenwhite.bsky.social

@kenwhite.bsky.social
14 posts
2024-09-01
“Anything done to Musk is defensible” is tiresome unserious wankery just like “anything done to Trump is defensible.”
2024-09-01 View on X
Techdirt

X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands

RE: https://www.threads.net/... Adam Cook / @motorcityadam : Pretty clear that Musk wants Bolsonaro re-installed and Musk wants to leverage Twitter, by design, to encourage Bolsona...

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 access TikTok. …
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …

/2 I should say, is defensible if the site does business in that country.  Not, I think, if it doesn't.
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …

Elon Musk believes it is outrageous for autocracies to be run by judges instead of by super-rich techbrahs [embedded post]
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …

“Anything done to Musk is defensible” is tiresome unserious wankery just like “anything done to Trump is defensible.”
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …

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 access TikTok. …
2024-09-01 View on X
New York Times

Brazilian judge amends his order, no longer requiring Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app; those using a VPN to access X still face a ~$9K/day fine

The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.

/2 I should say, is defensible if the site does business in that country.  Not, I think, if it doesn't.
2024-09-01 View on X
New York Times

Brazilian judge amends his order, no longer requiring Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app; those using a VPN to access X still face a ~$9K/day fine

The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.

Elon Musk believes it is outrageous for autocracies to be run by judges instead of by super-rich techbrahs [embedded post]
2024-09-01 View on X
Techdirt

X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands

RE: https://www.threads.net/... Adam Cook / @motorcityadam : Pretty clear that Musk wants Bolsonaro re-installed and Musk wants to leverage Twitter, by design, to encourage Bolsona...

2024-08-31
/2 I should say, is defensible if the site does business in that country.  Not, I think, if it doesn't.
2024-08-31 View on X
Associated Press

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …

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 access TikTok. …
2024-08-31 View on X
Associated Press

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …

2024-03-29
I expect a lot of drama over the fact that Judge Kaplan gave SBF “only” 25 years.  What if I told you 25 years is a lot?  I would have been a bit surprised if he went below 20 but this doesn't surprise me, based on how courts treat white collar stuff.
2024-03-29 View on X
Reuters

A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+

Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cite...

2023-12-11
Alex Jones, restored to X in the name of free speech, recently demanded that a comic be arrested and charged for prank calling him, and routinely calls people traitors and calls for their imprisonment and death for having different political views.
2023-12-11 View on X
Associated Press

X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account

the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace.  Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron G...

2023-11-21
/2 That's because X's purpose is to harass and abuse and maximize the cost of litigation, and anti-SLAPP statutes interfere with that aim.  It's because X's attorneys are unethical shitbirds.
2023-11-21 View on X
The Verge

Texas' AG, “troubled” by Elon Musk's claims, probes Media Matters, which calls X's suit “frivolous”; X avoids anti-SLAPP statutes by filing in the 5th Circuit

X, formerly Twitter, has followed through with owner Elon Musk's threat to sue the left-leaning nonprofit Media Matters.

2023-06-05
Jack boosting the lunatic RFK Jr. Is no surprise.  Entrepreneurs, and particularly techbrahs, are vulnerable to the great-man-outsider narratives because they see it as resonating with their own stories.  They're suckers for all sorts of Kirkland-brand Ubermensch poseurs.
2023-06-05 View on X
Washington Post

Instagram restores Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s account, banned in 2021 for “sharing debunked claims” about COVID-19 and vaccines, after his presidential bid launch

The prominent anti-vaccine campaigner was suspended in 2021 for spreading misleading health claims.