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Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Post by throwaway48476 »

mlindner wrote: post #135

This is all very unfortunate. It's sad to see liberalism dying in Brazil in real time. The very little reported thing is that this judge also installed a fine of something like $8000 per month (more than double the top percentile salary) for anyone using a VPN and also demanded that Apple and Google remove X and any VPNs from their app stores. Brazil is rapidly turning into a police state.

*back into a police state

Unfortunately western countries are no longer willing to set a good example to encourage developing countries to follow.

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Post by mmcwilliams »

stonethrowaway wrote: post #100

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Seems to be a selective rejection, as X complied with censorship orders from India [0] and Turkey [1].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-22/india-ord...

[1] https://balkaninsight.com/2024/05/23/x-appoints-representati...

Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Post by mensetmanusman »

delichon wrote: post #93
pfraze wrote: post #76

Copying over my latest backend status update; figure folks would find it interesting Servers are holding up so far! Fortunately we were overprovisioned. If we hit 4mm new signups then things should get interesting. We did have some degradations (user handles entering an invalid state, event-stream crashed a couple times, algo crashed a couple times, image servers hit bad latencies) but we managed to avoid a full outa…

Does Bluesky intend to be responsive to the kind of court orders that X rejected?

No, it is a game of whack a mole.

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Post by ImJamal »

siproprio wrote: post #182
braiamp wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what they viewed as unconstitutional orders to censor speech. As in Brazil constitution? They don't have free speech, but freedom of expression. Read article 5 of the Brazilian constitution.

What’s the difference between Free Speech and Freedom of Expression?

Usually it means you can't say so called hate speech.

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Post by braiamp »

siproprio wrote: post #182
braiamp wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what they viewed as unconstitutional orders to censor speech. As in Brazil constitution? They don't have free speech, but freedom of expression. Read article 5 of the Brazilian constitution.

What’s the difference between Free Speech and Freedom of Expression?

> The US constitution categorically upholds the value of Free Speech whereas the European Court of Human Rights Article 10 explicitly lists the reasons that free expression can be constrained.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2013.85...

It normally boils down to a , vs .

There's also wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_10_of_the_European_Con...

Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Post by throwaway48476 »

sega_sai wrote: post #157
declan_roberts wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You believe the riots in UK are because of twitter? People are living in parallel universes.

They were to large extent provoked by misinformation about the attacker on kids party. The misinformation stayed on twitter for long time and was spread out by many people including Musk.

If you believe that I have a colour revolution theory to sell you.

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Post by nova22033 »

double standards?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/modi-twitter-bbc-m...

“First I’ve heard,” Musk wrote in response to a question from Canadian lawyer David Freiheit.

“It is not possible for me to fix every aspect of Twitter worldwide overnight, while still running Tesla and SpaceX, among other things,” he added, referring to the multiple companies where he is CEO.

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Post by pfraze »

geekodour wrote: post #176
pfraze wrote: post #76

Copying over my latest backend status update; figure folks would find it interesting Servers are holding up so far! Fortunately we were overprovisioned. If we hit 4mm new signups then things should get interesting. We did have some degradations (user handles entering an invalid state, event-stream crashed a couple times, algo crashed a couple times, image servers hit bad latencies) but we managed to avoid a full outa…

hi pfraze, can u tell us a bit more about the golang event stream? does it also trigger the computation of the views periodically? more precisely wanted to understand how do you generate the event stream from sqlite

In my previous description, I avoided talking about atproto details for clarity, but this is all part of that (atproto.com). The "kv stores" are what we call data repos[1] and they use sqlite for storage, but can produce individual event streams. Those streams flow into the golang event stream, aka the "relay". View computation happens continuously.

1. data repos are actually signed merkle trees, which gives at-rest authentication of the data as it gets shipped across organizational boundaries

Re: Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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Post by nova22033 »

pqdbr wrote: post #72
toomuchtodo wrote: post #64

“Masterful gambit, sir.” (X is facing a deep decline in revenue, cutting its valuation from $44B to ~$12B [Musk’s stake is worth ~$7B], and Musk makes a choice that drives millions of users to an alternate site: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitters-revenue-collapses-84... )

More power to him. He’s making the hard choices and paying a steep price for actually standing for free speech like no other big tech does.

ah..yes..he's making the hard choices

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/modi-twitter-bbc-m...

“It is not possible for me to fix every aspect of Twitter worldwide overnight, while still running Tesla and SpaceX, among other things,” he added, referring to the multiple companies where he is CEO.

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