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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.
Either that or they think the market isn't worth the effort. Which is fine. I hope other countries follow. Then do the same with meta.
Their third most active market that they just lost
It might be their third most popular country but that doesn't necessarily mean it's profitable. Brazil isn't exactly known for spending a lot on things like Twitter Blue or ads, especially per capita.
I have a theory they looked at the numbers and realized that shedding the load would save more money than they would gain by staying. But then again that might be giving Elon too much credit.
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
Even if it somehow gets reinstated, the damage is done. Majority have already left for alternatives.
The funny thing is, the right in America are trying to push laws that make the company responisible for user posted content.
If that happens, and I go to twitter and post something illegal, I'M still liable for breaking the laws, but now so is twitter.
So eventually, if he tries to be above the law in America, SOMEBODY is going to post child porn. Then, by their own laws, twitter is liable for that illegal action.
This is going to lead to one of two things. Either
Or
Aw hell.....who am I kidding? It's going to be "Well, he's one of us. It's a big club, and you ain't in it".
He'll pay a 2 million dollar fine, which is peanuts to him, and this shitty world will keep on going.
They're Brazilians mate, even if the ban gets lifted in 10 years and xitter is somehow around, Brazilians will immediately flock back to it. They have unconditional love for their social media
Not gonna lie my inner child would be delighted to see Brazil shooting down Starlink satellites.
they don't need to, they just need to seize the ground PoPs and block ips to make it unusably slow.
I thought StarLink had inter-satelite laser links? Theoretically it should be faster than a VPN out of the country because light travels faster in a vacuum. But maybe this was another one of Elon's "full self driving next year!" features.
