Randahl FinkAug 31, 2024

This is a screenshot of the most beautiful karma post of 2024.

After having abused his ownership of X for two years, Brazil becomes the first country to simply shut down X.

The legally elected social democratic government of Brazil experienced a January 6 style coup attempt by anti-democratic, hard-right nationalist Bolsonaro in January 2023.

They have since fought a long legal battle to get Musk to shut down X accounts related to this coup.

Musk refused.

So they shut him down.

Show threadArthur P. Dent

@randahl People seem to forget that US-based tech companies are foreign actors in other countries and interfering in their politics doesn’t have to be tolerated.

The Brazilians essentially succeeded at banning Twitter (I refuse to use its dumb rebrand) where the US has as yet failed to ban TikTok.

Aug 31, 2024 at 4:29amWeb