US releases sealed Brazil orders to X, shedding light on account suspensions

Re:US releases sealed Brazil orders to X, shedding light on ... by modeless on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:48PM (#40082693)

> offering a glimpse into decisions that have spurred complaints of alleged censorship from the company and its billionaire owner

In other words, decisions not made by the company or its "billionaire owner" at all but falsely attributed to them.

> the company under [Musk's] ownership has bowed to government requests from around the world

Under duress! Damned if you do, banned if you don't. In this case they actually did stand up to a government and are of course being criticized for that too.

> [Musk's] crusade has been cheered on by supporters of far-right

> most legal experts see [the judge's] brash tactics as legally sound and furthermore justified

Could this article possibly be written in a more slanted way? To me what's going on with these orders is absurd and obviously shouldn't be allowed in a sensible democracy. Is AP really on the side of the idea that one person should have unilateral, unchecked secret ban power over every social media account in the country?

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Re:US releases sealed Brazil orders to X, shedding light on ... by whatisthis9 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:02PM (#40082766)

IMO, as the CEO of Tesla, Musk should have never bought X imo from a business standpoint, even if he fully believes in full speech, because it simply traps him (most of the world has no where near as strong free speech laws as the US).

In India for example, if he doesn't kowtow to the authoritarian trending Indian government in power, he risks sinking any chance of Tesla expanding its marketshare in a democracy critical to Tesla's future.

The same goes for Tesla in Turkey. https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-erdogan-asks-us-elon-... . If X starts standing up for speech there, this could sink their future plans in another valuable market.

I think the fact that he backtracked on Brazil ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/musk-s-x-... ) might also show that he also worries about Tesla's future in Brazil.

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Re:US releases sealed Brazil orders to X, shedding light on ... by dzhiurgis on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:16PM (#40082841)

As an owner of hard-to-censor global internet satellite constellation, positioning to offer free speech globally is quite fitting.

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Re:US releases sealed Brazil orders to X, shedding light on ... by ashildr on Friday April 19, 2024 @02:29AM (#40083961)

Free speech as long as you don‘t hurt the master‘s feelings.

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Re:US releases sealed Brazil orders to X, shedding light on ... by dzhiurgis on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:54AM (#40105821)

I hope you are referring to US gov.

What Elon is offering is similar what google was 2 decades ago, but even they went 200% into DEI so ultimately it’s foolish.

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Re:US releases sealed Brazil orders to X, shedding light on ... by ashildr on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:01PM (#40175274)

I seriously have no idea what you mean by this.

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Re:US releases sealed Brazil orders to X, shedding light on ... by ImPostingOnHN on Friday April 19, 2024 @10:13AM (#40087085)

I think the point being raised by OP is that "hard to censor" doesn't matter when elmu willingly censors people whenever it makes him more money.

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