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Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by Glyptodon »

welshwelsh wrote: post #7
kranke155 wrote: post #3

Apparently Brazil only asked for Twitter/X to have a local office (so they could be dealt with inside Brazilian law) and ban like 7 accounts.

I'm glad they didn't comply. I don't want social media platforms banning people just because some national government told them to.

I think a distinction is to be made between a government and a court.

Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by ivewonyoung »

dark-star wrote: post #57
brianolson wrote: post #27

2 million new bsky accounts https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l36zm4e6ee2w

what keeps them from banning bsky too in the coming months?

Because Bsky will censor. They are celebrating X not censoring with all these posts boasting about the numbers.

Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by inglor_cz »

timeon wrote: post #44
inglor_cz wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being able to read stuff written by other people is pretty close to a basic human right, though. At least in the liberal Western tradition.

I often can't read Twitter because I do not have account. Is my human right violated?

The coercion inherent in the Brasilian ban (massive fines for users who dare use VPN to access Twitter, massive fines for ISPs who don't comply) is many orders of magnitude greater than the coercion inherent in a paywall.

Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by TacticalCoder »

dark-star wrote: post #57
brianolson wrote: post #27

2 million new bsky accounts https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l36zm4e6ee2w

what keeps them from banning bsky too in the coming months?

Isn't Bluesky (I know nothing about it: heard about it for the first time on HN following the X ban in totalitarian Brazil) decentralized?

Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by kranke155 »

hu3 wrote: post #54
kranke155 wrote: post #3

Apparently Brazil only asked for Twitter/X to have a local office (so they could be dealt with inside Brazilian law) and ban like 7 accounts.

They threatened X employees with jail time. Bunch of reasonable folks these Brazilian judges.

Brazil is big on lawfare, not defending it.

Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by kranke155 »

gruez wrote: post #5
kranke155 wrote: post #3

Apparently Brazil only asked for Twitter/X to have a local office (so they could be dealt with inside Brazilian law) and ban like 7 accounts.

>for Twitter/X to have a local office (so they could be dealt with inside Brazilian law) ...and so they have someone to hold ~hostage~ responsible if something goes wrong >and ban like 7 accounts And you think they're going to stop there?

No, so what. It's their business what accounts are allowed under local law.

Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by kranke155 »

welshwelsh wrote: post #7
kranke155 wrote: post #3

Apparently Brazil only asked for Twitter/X to have a local office (so they could be dealt with inside Brazilian law) and ban like 7 accounts.

I'm glad they didn't comply. I don't want social media platforms banning people just because some national government told them to.

He seems to have done it for other countries.

Re: Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky

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Post by timeon »

anon291 wrote: post #9
marcinzm wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't seem to stop Twitter in India and Turkey.

Why not just be glad they're taking a stand now? I'm so confused. Edit: also looking at the history here... They fought those bans too. I'm guessing, due to Indias importance to the IT industry, twitter was unable to pull out entirely, leaving their employees vulnerable if they didn't comply. Not sure about turkey, but it looks like in this case, they are able to avoid censorship by pulling out entirely. Brazil is an…

Somehow free speech applies only when hate speech needs to be protected.
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