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How about the last scrap of pretense at democratic rule of law? Just because someone you do not like is on the receiving end, you should not applaud the authoritarian government.
The Supreme Court is upholding the rule of law. If Musk refuses to take action on the massive propaganda and disinformation campaigns that are rampant on his platform and lead to a fascist (like a literal fascist who praised the military dictatorship and openly said it's only mistake was not to torture enough) getting elected, banning it shows that the democracy is still defensive and able to protect itself.
We can't let tech monopolies just ignore any democratic rule and do whatever they want.
Care to expand on this?
Genuinely asking how Elon Musk unilaterally defying a unanimous court order is losing the “last scrap of pretense at democratic rule of law.” Seems like more of the same old oligarchy games like it always has been.
I can see both sides on this one I think?
Out of curiosity, would you feel differently about this if it had been a print newsletter or physical book publisher that was printing Nazi propaganda that got shutdown because they refused to stop printing Nazi propaganda?
If so, what's the substantive difference? If not, are you affirming banning people from publishing books based on ideological grounds?
Obviously banning books is bad, but obviously Nazis are bad, and that's a hard square to circle.
Except the-service-formerly-known-as-Twitter isn't being "shut down", it's being stopped at the Brazilian border. This actually happens all the time with print publications in many countries that don't take Free Speech to toxic extremes—they get confiscated at the border by Customs officials. It's less common these days than it used to be, but I'd bet that there are still instances of fringe porn and unapologetic Nazi propaganda being seized.
X-Twitter is free to go about its business in the country in which it's based and in any other country where it hasn't been banned, just not in Brazil, until and unless it decides to comply with the courts there. Which it is free to do at any time.
I don't understand your statement, printing Nazi propaganda is a crime so yeah it will be shutdown for committing a crime, doesn't matter if in the odds day they are printing school books.
Printing Nazi propaganda isn't illegal in the US.
And I realize this isn't in the US, obviously. But I think that the idea that the government shouldn't be able to ban people from saying things, or compel them to say things, is so baked into the American zeitgeist (of which I am a member), that it feels wrong in a fundamental moral sense when it happens.
It's the old, "I don't agree with anything that man says, but I'll defend to the death his right to say it," thing.
Thank god is not the US.
People can say whatever they want but they will suffer the consequences of it, you can not make death threats to people, you can not make defamation like in the case of the female Olympic athlete. If the consequences for these acts are only monetary so the law only works for poor people.
To be clear, harassment and defamation are crimes in the US as well. Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you can harm people with your speech with impunity. It's a prohibition on the government from meddling with political speech, especially that of people who are detractors of the government.
That's a nice hypothetical but the facts of this case are much simpler. Would you agree that a country is sovereign, and entitled to write its own laws? Would you agree that a company has to abide by a country's laws if it wants to operate there? Even an American company? Even if it is owned by a billionaire celebrity?
I think the issue is that, while a country is certainly allowed to write it's own laws, the idea that it is deeply fundamentally immoral for the government to prevent someone from saying something (or compel them to say something) is very deeply baked into the American zeitgeist (of which I am a part.)
So in the same way that a country is perfectly within its sovereign rights to pass a law that women are property or minorities don't have the right to vote, I can still say that it feels wrong of them to do so.
And I would also decry a country that kicks out a company that chooses to employ women or minorities in violation of such a law, even if that is technically their sovereign right to do so.
There are standards whereby you can determine something is harmful and not covered by free speech. Like calling for violence against a demographic minority. That's not either censorship or in bad faith, but upholding standards for a civilized society.
It's basically no different than the fact that you are not allowed to kill people in the street.
First: same club as EUA right? EUA banned TikTok so yeah everyone is in the same boat right now.
Second: The move with Starlink was: Musk has a debt with Brazil, he didn't paid the fines so the judges decide that they'll freeze the money from Starlink because they understand that both companies are on the same corporate group
It is not the government defining something as dangerous. It‘s the democratically elected parliament, the democratically elected government and the then appointed judges which rule based on democratically created laws. And if the society comes to the conclusion that hate speech, defamation and lies are not covered by free speech they can of course shut down X and co. And the law applies also to billionaires.
Its a shutdown for non-compliance with a law.
The law in non-compliance is an attempt to shut down misinformation related to an election where x refused to appoint a court representative. Rather than fight the battle in court they chose to just shut down brazil changing x from a brazil represented company to basically a purely foreign company similar to RT in the US.
Like there's a difference between showing up to court to fight for free speech and shutting down your offices so you can't argue your case.
Funnily enough, Twitter is not banned in Iran.
when people volunteer their confessions, it probably makes jailing, torturing or execution easier. Xitter is a helpful service for the mullahs
That's kind of one of the points of having a government... When it's applied to banning toxic chemicals or violence, that's the same thing happening but you just wouldn't call it censorship.
When I first learned about it, it kind of seems like school bullying or something criminal. "Give me 50000 if you want to keep operating". It's kind of funny, but it is also kind of sad. Anyway, the decision has it geopolitical importance.
It's pretty simple: did Elon design a legal representative as asked by the judge?
He could have avoided this, but he thought he was above the law, and guess what? He's not.
Man you right wingers are a very annoying bunch, always claiming censorship and loss of democracy while applauding the actual wannabe dictators doing gold medal deserving mental gymnastics to justify antidemocratic actions
Yes, of course. The guy advocating against censorship and pro freedom of business must be a right winger. You do know, what the real right wingers will do, when they get these instruments into their hands? If not, you will probably find out soon in Brazil.
Musk is not anti-censorship. He just wants to be in control of the censorship.
The same thing that is already happening in Turkey, India and Saudi Arabia? Musk's Twitter has no problem censoring people when it's to help right-wing authoritarians.
america has her own supreme court problems to figure out before anyone starts weeping about brazil being mean to elon fucking musk
Because some 300 million people somewhere have problems with their courts, the rest of the world does not matter?
0 posts and 12 comments like this one. What the fuck is wrong with you?
What? Brazil is driving censorship but we should not care nor discuss, because whataboutism in America? Last time I checked this was lemmy.world, not lemmy.US_centric_worldview
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Nice bait
They are paraphrasing Thomas Paine:
Broski, that's what Xitter is doing by giving platform to fascists while banning liberal accounts.
Also a conservative MO: act with hostility (or neglect) towards a target and then scream very loudly about any pushback and try to frame yourself as a victim to gain support.
Wow, this is like, super stupid.
Wow
Phew, I thought I was the only one here lol. This whole situation has me wondering what Brazil is trying to do that they're so afraid will be talked about on X.
if you still think that this is about free speech, you either didn't read about what's happening in Brazil or you can't understand what you read
Literally according to Time Magazine, "It marks an escalation in the monthslong feud between Musk and de Moraes over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation."
https://time.com/7016537/brazil-blocks-elon-musk-x-twitter-company-refuses-comply-judge/
elmo is trying to make it about free speech and if time is reporting what's happening they have to write about what x's defense is
did you completely read that article you linked and said to yourself "oh, they're trying to silence dissent in Brazil and Elmo is fighting for the right to freedom of expression" ?
Yes. Did you read the article? What do you think this dispute is about, if not Brazil's attempts to censor content on X?
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Guess not lol