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Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by LtWorf on Sunday September 27, 2026 @07:27AM (#49865713)
Facebook has to follow the law like everyone else… I know they don't like to but…
Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by hvb2 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:16AM (#49866431)
Spoiler, they only follow court orders. You can violate the law as long as you want until there's a judge saying you do. This is just modus operandi for any big corp in America nowadays.
Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by rbanffy on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:51AM (#49866650)
And right now the election court in Brazil is headed by two justices named by Jair Bolsonaro mostly for how loyal to him they’d be.
Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by owebmaster on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:30AM (#49866949)
That's a plain big lie. There was no court order to ban Lula's account.
Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by hvb2 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:16PM (#49868667)
I was referring to normal business operations in the US.

So if someone thinks this is illegal, it's only illegal until a court says so. It can be in clear violation of the law but until a judge says it is they can pretend they 'interpret' things differently