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not sure what everyone's so excited about "The X service remains available to the people of Brazil, the platform said on Saturday."
seems like they're just closing their offices so they don't get fined or arrested
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.
But it isn't. Now people get to spread misinformation to Brazilians with no repercussions.
and do you think there were repercussions before?
whatsapp does this misinformation job immensely better
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.
They can just block the IP in Brazil too
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.
"gathering ye schadenfreude where ye may"
Seems to be the way on Lemmy. People are so desperate for a circlejerk that they just start inventing their own reality to accommodate one.
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...
~~that's not how the internet works, clot~~ i think i read your post reply incorrectly
Say that to governments that wants to locally ban tiktok.
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.
Because it led to eventual ban https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/30/brazil-orders-suspension-of-elon-musks-x.html
excellent