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Re:X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk's refusal to com... by matheusmoreira on Sunday September 01, 2024 @12:42AM (#41414358)
The "violent coup attempt" was actually just a protest. Not really any different than all the protests which came before and which targeted the exact same public venues. They didn't even try to enact a coup. They wanted the brazilian military to do it. There's a difference.

Unlike the US, we actually have reason to doubt the election. Voting machines with no paper trail? Come on. Do I really need to explain the problems with that on Hacker News?

Laws mandating a paper trail were passed by congress twice, and they were declared unconstitutional by the same judges behind this latest censorship. Had the paper trail been implemented, nobody would have had reason to doubt anything. Those judges are a major reason why things got this far.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423

Would you trust these guys to determine truth from falsity? This Alexandre de Moraes is so incredibly self-righteous he straight up declared that the voting machines are UNQUESTIONABLE. Does he have the balls to release the device to the world, confident that they would fail to hack it? No. In the world of security and cryptography, far better men than him have failed miserably at greater endeavours. But his voting machines are unquestionable.

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