Members of Brazil’s supreme court have unanimously voted to uphold the ban on X, after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws led to the social network being blocked in one of its biggest markets.
On Monday, five of the court’s justices were asked to consider Friday’s decision to temporarily banish X from Brazil, where the platform has more than 21 million users. By lunchtime all five had voted in favour of the ban.
Casting his vote in favour of X’s continued suspension, Flávio Dino said the company’s decision to “deliberately” ignore a court order to name a legal representative in Brazil suggested it “considered itself above the rule of law”.
Refusal to comply with local laws suggests social media company ‘considered itself above the rule of law’
Seems like a correct observation to me.
It’s almost as if companies are used to do whatever the fuck they want and the moment there’s pushback you have pissing, screaming and gnashing of teeth.
The really funny thing here is that Elon’s Twitter has openly complied with censorship orders from Hungary already. The free speech stuff is fake. Twitter does overt political censorship on request.
The Hungarian twitter community is very small, I’d be surprised if it were a censorship target. Do you have a source on this?
My bad, it was Turkey, not Hungary.
Gotcha
Not gonna lie my inner child would be delighted to see Brazil shooting down Starlink satellites.
Lol everybody here talking trash about X breaking the law. But when a streaming service up their price it is about sailing the high seas, torrent this and pirate that.
Don’t you have boots to lick?
No contradiction. Law is a dumb basis for deciding what you like and don’t like.
