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Re:Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users swi... by inglor_cz on Monday September 02, 2024 @04:56PM (#41428748)

There is a lot more than racist bullshit that is going on on Twitter/X, for example, a lot of interesting voices from Ukraine.

If I were a Brasilian, I would certainly deeply resent the idea that my government treats me like a digital serf who is only allowed to move within a certain "area".

I don't believe in merits of censorship, regardless of all the putative benefits it always claims. And yeah, I am aware that Musk isn't a good personal example either. But it is worse if an entity with a monopoly on violence (= government) engages in that.

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Re:Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users swi... by kaba0 on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @02:57AM (#41432059)

Governments are elected by people, and are the best representatives of what the people want. You rather a foreign agent with questionable motives be the arbiter of truth, rather than the body that is elected more or less democratically?

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Re:Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users swi... by inglor_cz on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @04:47AM (#41432742)

I don't want governments to be arbiters of truth at all. Elected, unelected, I just don't want them to do this kind of job, much like I don't want a plumber to dictate the contents of my next lunch.

The idea that governments should stick their fingers into anything they want is literally the definition of a totalitarian society.

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Re:Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users swi... by rbanffy on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @08:24AM (#41434264)

I don’t want Musk to be an arbiter of truth either, and I’m sure we can all agree how much of a terrible idea that’d be.

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