Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld a ban on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
A majority of three out of five justices have already voted in favour of the measure, meaning the ban will stay in place even if the two remaining justices were to vote against it.
X has been suspended in Brazil since the early hours of Saturday after it failed to appoint a new legal representative in the country before a court-imposed deadline.
It is the culmination of a feud between Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and X’s owner Elon Musk which began in April, when the judge ordered the suspension of dozens of accounts for allegedly spreading disinformation.
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I could fix your power problem elon
He would never do this to China or India. He undermines the sovereignty of 3rd world countries and it will back fire.
There is nothing more compelling than losing lots of money for a billionaire to rethink its strategy and fall in line with the laws of the country where it operates.
Elon Musk's view on what constitutes freedom of speech is irrelevant as it is self-serving, basically meant to maximize his company's revenues. It is high time to stop these Internet pirates from assisting in the propagation of fake news on an industrial scale, whilst enriching themselves in doing so.
I 100% support Elon on this.
And guess what, today, September 22, 2024, Musk changed his mind, and complied with Minister Moraes' decision by blocking Bolsonaro extremist supporters' profiles on X.
Oh, do you know why he's playing nice? It's because, surprise surprise, money speaks louder than anything else!
His real "ideology"? Cold hard cash, obviously.
I mean, who wouldn't trade their precious Starlink contracts with the Brazilian government just to protect a bunch of flat-earthers spewing hatred and nonsense online? Yeah, right. Priorities, right?
MONEY TALKS, baby.
Quit moaning about it, Brazilians. If you REALLY want to be on a platform that promotes misinformation and is run by a far-right nazi, there is always Truth Social.
This is like being under pressure from a homeless smelly bum. Imagine being a civilian in a 3rd world country like brazil, and having your government, not fix the infrastructure or crime, but go after peoples free speech. Woke ๐คก s
Brazil where the leader is also a former leader jailed with corruption . Suddenly out of jail and won an election. The BBC don't care about such things. Doesn't fit their propaganda
3,000 men await white yerroust and thise whi back them as in government or banking …..Be sure you tell all billionaire their kids and families are just like the common family and they live on earth.
Damn i guess , American products are not safe nor up to World safety
How did anyone expect an absolute introvert to run a social media platform successfully๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Under pressure? Haha they will be fine. Brazil is a communist shithole. X will survive longer than anyone in Brazil who is in power
Musk under pressure? You guys really think he gives a rats ass what the BBC or Brazil think? Really. You have the ignorant Brazilians on one side and then you have the The left wing BBC on the other side. Both very ignorant and both will waste your time. You guys have fun being slaves while the free travel around the world. Like they say in Brazil. You will know nothing and you will be happy.
Brasil is going communist red
Brasil doesn't need X, X needs Brasil.
Fk Elon Musk. Elon Musk doesn't know his head from his ass.
I'm curious as to why my page started looking like a porn site when gay pride month began.
Here in Brazil, today, September 13th, Elon Musk, through Starlink, has just paid the fine imposed by Brazilian judicial authorities on X.
The fine amounts to approximately 4 million dollars.
Now, to reactivate X in Brazil, they will still have to appoint a representative of the company here in Brazil, in addition to complying with court orders.
These multimillionaires have to be hit in the pocket; only then will they respect the authorities of various countries.
Expected from leftists corrupt judges and corrupt governments. The same goes for Macron arresting the CEO of Telegram and the Spanish Government "breaking" the law, lying, censorship, dealing with criminals to keep themselves in power. All Politicians are Joke, but the progressive left is taking the game to another level, who loves to ban freedoms, to steal what's not theirs through taxes, and spend as much money as possible on nonsensical policies to favour minorities to be able to look morally superior. APALLING AND DESPICABLE.
Hopefully, when trump wins he may put a end to all these progressive madness.
We need x!!
this is Brazil!!!
When you travel to a foreign country, you have to respect the laws of that country, right? Because social networks should it be different? Australia punished Google, India blocked it tiktok [which is banned in China itself], among other cases. You have 2 options: respect the law or suffer the consequences, simple…
The Brasilian supreme court is corrupted by their "parti interests" , the context of this ban is far from not following the law it is about to breakdown brasilans basic rights.
Basically a country evolving to be like Venezuela !
Freedom of speech is only upheld in one country for now even though the elite leftists are trying very hard to take it away
Nos, brasileiros usuรกrios do X, somos bilhรตes e fomos prejudicados pelo nosso governo e queremos o X de volta. A Rede Globo tem inveja pir twr perdido a audiรชncia, mas a incompetรชncia e as fake news que eles praticam nao atrai o publico. NOX pidemos observar e combater noticias falsas com o Community Notes.
I'm brazilian and we are all fed up with Lula and Alexandre de Moraes silencing brazilians and betraying our military. It is so clear that they work for the DS and are the head of drug trafficking here. They Know Starlink is used by the military to investigate crimes in the Amazon.
It gained more value as a platform for free speech .
screw brazil!! keep em dumb and sheeple
The picture they chose shows their bias before you even click the video
Keen to buy twitter???๐ he was sued into buying it..
Who will censor my comment again, BBC, DW; Meta or Elon Musk? Could this be Musk's idea of โโfreedom of expression?
Musk's intentions are to destroy democracies and fascism for economic domination! Did Elon Musk invest 20% of his fortune ($221 billion) to buy tweeter media at the risk of the company going bankrupt? I proposed to Elon Musk that he pay me 10% of US$44 billion and I would show him a risk-free investment to obtain results in 2 years of US$13.2 billion! I waited for his answer, to show him the way!
In a planned and organized way, the world goes down the drain. The rich and billionaires capture the minds of citizens, through emotions, in the bigtec algorithm. As an objective, the oligarchy dominates politics, commands the increase in inequality, climate change and the terror of neo-Nazism.
Trump captured poverty, through bigtech and speeches about civilizational setbacks. To make billionaires and the rich even richer, increasing poverty. This is the current model, especially in the Western world!
Itโs Brazil thatโs under pressure , you BBC propagandists and complete morons.
Bbc afe scum
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So many small minded people in the comment section, Elon stands for freedom of speech heโs on your side! And the censeorship will only get heavier and heavier until your in complete control Elon is saving your freedom, Iโm assuming people just love the look of there cages
Most of these people in these comments are what is wrong with the world. You really cant trust any government as their leaders are humans which in turn can be greedy, controlling evil so freedom of speech is a must