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X was being fined for not taking down certain account linked with allegedly criminal (as in anti-democratic) content. While seemingly noble, some of these acco
by taway2024081712 2y ago
X was being fined for not taking down certain account linked with allegedly criminal (as in anti-democratic) content.
While seemingly noble, some of these accounts were from people not living in Brazil, and supposedly being read by people also not living there. So there's the question of if an American corporation should censor the (one-way?) communication between, say, two US residents at the request of a foreign government.
The court should have issued a more reasonable request of restricting those accounts to be reached by accounts based in Brazil, which should restrict the judge's decision to his jurisdiction.
- addaon 2y ago> The court should Why? This seems to have been very effective in both accomplishing the court’s goals in this case, and improving life in Brazil a bit in general.
- acedTrex 2y agoElon is not blocking Brazilian internet traffic to X. He is removing their assets from the country physically, from the article it looks like that means divesting of legal resources quote > X claims Moraes secretly threatened one of its legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform. Brazil's Supreme Court, where Moraes has a seat, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. > The X service remains available to the people of Brazil, billionaire Elon Musk's platform said on Saturday.
- sroussey 2y agoSo, Estonia should be able to block anyone in the world that says anything about Estonia with low sentiment, for example?
- tankenmate 2y agoIf they so wish, Estonia is a sovereign country, they can block any company they want; they just need to pass a law to say so (provided of course it doesn't conflict with other laws they have).
- sroussey 2y agoNo, Estonia in this example requires people in the USA to not talk about Estonia negatively amongst themselves.
- Teocali 2y agoThey cannot forbid it. But they can rhetorically pass a law asking any website to moderate these talks. And block these site on its territory if it doesn’t comply. Practically, this would never happen, Estonia is too small of an actor. But if the EU decided to pass a law in this sense (would not happen, too many people implicated in an EU law writing), this would have more weight.
- chairmansteve 2y agoYep. Just as Musk's buddies Xi and Putin block twitter. So can Estonia.
- alexlll862 2y agoYou are completely missing the point. Putin and Xi cannot block Twitter in America. They cannot prevent two Americans living in the US from talking to each other negatively about Russia.
- matheusmoreira 2y ago> improving life in Brazil a bit in general My life is not at all improved by this nonsense.