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Perhaps but that's just speculation and not supported by evidence.
by olalonde 2y ago
Perhaps but that's just speculation and not supported by evidence.
- darth_avocado 2y agoThat’s true, but there are some publicly available facts like Brazil’s content moderation team no longer exists. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-fired-brazil-twitter-content-moderation-1234657777/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus... https://restofworld.org/2022/global-twitter-employees-layoffs/# https://restofworld.org/2022/global-twitter-employees-layoff... And the policy team: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-has-a-new-wave-of-layoffs-in-public-policy-team https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-has-a-new-wa... We could all pretend that you’d be able to deal with operating in hundreds of countries with a bare bones team, or we could speculate that it’s hard & opens you up to many legal problems.
- olalonde 2y agoI know that they're closing down their Brazil operations, that's literally the title of the article. The speculation I was referring to was your claim that they're really closing down because of financial considerations rather than their stated reason (e.g. unwillingness to comply with the judge's orders).
- darth_avocado 2y agoThe links I shared are from 2022/2023, long predating the current dispute. Financial considerations are most definitely at play.
- ilikehurdles 2y agoThat's speculation. You see how that's speculation, right?
- walterbell 2y agoTagline for future HN comment annotation bot.
- jeremyjh 2y agoIn TFA it says X told the court that they had failed to follow its orders previously because of operational deficiencies. GP is not really going out on a limb here.