Comment by taway2024081712
1 year ago
X was being fined for not taking down certain account linked with allegedly criminal (as in anti-democratic) content.
While seemingly noble, some of these accounts were from people not living in Brazil, and supposedly being read by people also not living there. So there's the question of if an American corporation should censor the (one-way?) communication between, say, two US residents at the request of a foreign government.
The court should have issued a more reasonable request of restricting those accounts to be reached by accounts based in Brazil, which should restrict the judge's decision to his jurisdiction.
> The court should
Why? This seems to have been very effective in both accomplishing the court’s goals in this case, and improving life in Brazil a bit in general.
So, Estonia should be able to block anyone in the world that says anything about Estonia with low sentiment, for example?
If they so wish, Estonia is a sovereign country, they can block any company they want; they just need to pass a law to say so (provided of course it doesn't conflict with other laws they have).
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Yep. Just as Musk's buddies Xi and Putin block twitter. So can Estonia.
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Elon is not blocking Brazilian internet traffic to X. He is removing their assets from the country physically, from the article it looks like that means divesting of legal resources
quote > X claims Moraes secretly threatened one of its legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform. Brazil's Supreme Court, where Moraes has a seat, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
> The X service remains available to the people of Brazil, billionaire Elon Musk's platform said on Saturday.
> improving life in Brazil a bit in general
My life is not at all improved by this nonsense.