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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.
@randahl Russia blocked Twitter/X in 2022 for the same reason.
However I don't see how this is a good news. Internet censorship hurts people and creates bad precedent.
Do you want your own country start blocking access to websites left and right and imposing huge fines on their own citizens for attempting to circumvent the blocks?
theguardian.com/technology/art…
"The decision imposes a daily fine of R$50,000 (£6,800) on individuals and companies that attempt to continue using X via VPN."
@shuro @randahl It’s not simple. In a free society, you need to put up with some quantity of unpleasant speech and even hate speech because that’s a price for freedom. At some point, a service may facilitate so much hate speech that it becomes the product.
I can’t say if Twitter has reached that point, but it keeps edging closer to being a hate speech micro blogging platform.
@randahl @birwin They said the same here when they introduced the Internet censorship in 2014. It goes downhill real fast.
Basically what we see here is what I saw numerous times in my own country:
- Some service allows materials government doesn't like
- Then they refuse to follow orders to remove it
- Then they refuse to comply with "the hostage law" (the requirement to have legal representatives in the country which can be harassed)
- Then the government blocks access to the service for their citizens and punishes them for circumventing the censorship
This road leads nowhere good as I can tell you firsthand.
Randahl Fink
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