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    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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      3 months ago

      What’s going to happen the next time the government or judges called them from something? They don’t respond and the judge are going to order the ISP to stop forward data from and to them, blocking them on Brazil. It’s not even going to be the first time, brazillian judges have had fights with whatapp before, and for a couple of days whataap have been blocked. Whatapp move like 10% of the Brazilian economy, so it was solved quickly, Twitter is nowhere as relevant and nobody is going to care when its end blocked.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      true, but they had a local presence for reasons that benefited them; legal, operational, commercial, strategic, whatever. So I’ll take it as good news.

        • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          and do you think there were repercussions before?

          whatsapp does this misinformation job immensely better

          • fernandofig@reddthat.comEnglish
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            3 months ago

            and do you think there were repercussions before?

            For X? Sure, that’s why they’re leaving in the first place - by not complying to the judge’s orders, they’d surely get slapped with fines and such. As a company, it makes sense to leave and avoid being accountable, but given the influence they (sadly) still have in the media, avoiding those repercussions and letting bad actors do their thing, they’re adding gasoline to the burning world.

            The fact that Whatsapp is more popular in Brazil than X is beside the point.

    • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I guess because they didn’t read the article. Although even the headline implies this with the word “operations”, so I guess the people celebrating in this thread are just stupid and/or coping.

    • Clot@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Complete X ban doesn’t seem too far-fetched to me after this, as they have closed the offices, they won’t be able to moderate stuff…

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Earlier this year, Moraes ordered X to block certain accounts, as he investigates so-called “digital militias” that have been accused of spreading fake news and hate messages during the government of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro.

    That sounds very “on brand” for the company these days.

    Should journalists start referring to the platform as “the far-right hate speech platform formerly known as Twitter”?

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    So Bolsonaro won’t get elected again, uh.

    I’m surprised to be saying this but thank you Elon Muppet.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      afaik he’s still barred from running for office until 2030, as a result of undermining the validity of the electoral process - the same process that once elected him btw…

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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        3 months ago

        He’ll be 75yo in '30. Still viable as a candidate.

        And, for '26, he’s still the one deciding who’s going to run for his party. One of the options is his wife Michelle Bolsonaro, a vulture from the same flock as her husband.

        Now with Twitter out of the equation* they’ll have a harder reaching their base.

        EDIT: actually scrap that. It’s only its offices, the service will be still available. Fuck it, now I’m sour.

  • Endward23@futurology.todayEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I really wonder how long X aka Twitter can operate within the EU. The EU is on a smiliar tracetion in my opinion.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      You apparently forget he said Twitter needed major before he bought it.

      It’s by design. 🤦🏼‍♂️

  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Lol they need to shut down in Indonesia as well Twitter regularly accept censorship request from Indonesian government