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This is a feature of authoritarianism, not socialism.
Brazilian court orders suspension of X
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#52Well this is fun. Nice to see a government with some teeth for once instead of bowing to the whims of every multibillion mega corporation or agitated billionaire.
It's nice to see a government which is threatening to fine its citizens US$8,900 per day for using a website which was banned because it didn't remove the accounts of that government's political opponents?
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#53Can someone explain the me what actual power do Brazilian supreme court justices have? Seems like Brazilian judges are like Judge Dredd.
The actual power is what a society will accept. At this point it seems like he can do anything a monarch could do in a kinda modern society.
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#54“Twitter doesn’t have a choice but to obey local governments. If we don’t obey local government laws, we will get shut down" - Elon Musk on decision to follow Modi's requests for censorship https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/twitt...
This is not the government
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#55This has been a bad week for Democracy/freedom of speech
In what way? Musk decides what's OK and not OK on twitter.
Twitter isn't a platform to promote democracy, it promotes what Musk wants.
Twitter has turned into hot garbage. For years my feed was pretty clean as it's almost exclusively tech. Gave it up recently as it was clogged with right-wing conspiracy, odd videos and random made up AI young women randomly following me occasionally.
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#56Can someone explain the me what actual power do Brazilian supreme court justices have? Seems like Brazilian judges are like Judge Dredd.
On paper, the Congress is perfectly capable of removing any supreme court minister for any kind of wrongdoing. They can't exactly reverse the decisions, but they can make them ineffective too.
On practice, well, they are clearly above the other powers, and only the supreme court plenarium can do anything about the individual judges.
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I am not sure anything that ends in punishing Elon Musk is going to deter a socialist.
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#58For the curious, this is the main Brazilian legislation about the topic:
https://www.cgi.br/pagina/marco-civil-law-of-the-internet-in...
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#59Can anyone speak to the motivations of this judge? Does he have a valid/legal/moral point under Brazilian law with attempts to ban those accounts on X? Or is he just a toady for da Silva?
Musk has been in a feud with this particular judge for a while now. This article covers the beginning of the fight https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-twitter-moraes-bef0... And this one is an update on how both sides are acting kind of ridiculous https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/29/elons-standoff-with-braz...
A judge that gets in a "feud" with a litigant, for any reason, is totally unfit to be a judge.
"Judicial temperament" is how I've heard lawyers describe the ideal.
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#60For those saying "just use a VPN" -- who is to say the BR government isn't going to use this as a cash extraction weapon against those critical of the state.
Pull up a list of all known BR notable people on twitter. See if they tweeted anything since the ban was in effect. Fine them and rake in the $$$.
The govt probably WANTS it to be circumvented.