Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
by dang on Sunday September 01, 2024 @09:50PM
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> Stop being dishonest about the situation. You know full well [...]
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
False, there was no due process. Twitter/X’s appeals were not even heard by the Supreme Court, which is probably in part because of the inherent conflict of interest given that the illegal secret censorship orders come from a Supreme Court justice. And also, why are you saying “Musk” did not comply - he’s not CEO of Twitter/X, just someone criticizing Alexandre de Moraes and the state of censorship and democracy in Brazil.
> It's not, in the slightest, censorship at all.
Now that some of the secret orders have been published, we see that it is indeed literal censorship as claimed by Twitter/X. De Moraes unilaterally decided that accounts belonging to current elected officials should be deleted in secret. That is literally, completely, censorship.
> The continuous disregard of Brazilian laws meant that Musk, which in addition do not paid the fines, also removed his legal representatives from the country, which is not permitted by our legislation.
Stop being dishonest about the situation. You know full well that Twitter/X removed their legal representative because Alexandre de Moraes threatened them personally, with fines, jail time, and even froze their personal financial assets. That is an incredibly authoritarian action. Twitter/X had to close their office to avoid having their staff similarly persecuted. It is a giant embarrassment to Brazil in the world’s eye but also a gross violation of civil liberties.