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In 20 hours Brazil could join China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, as the only countries in the world where their ci
by virgulino 2y ago
In 20 hours Brazil could join China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, as the only countries in the world where their citizens are banned from reading Twitter.
We will no longer be allowed to read what Biden, Kamala, the European leaders, the hundreds of thousands of institutions around the world and 350 million fellow earthlings have to say.
All this by way of the sudden and unappealable decision of a single judge this night.
- Xunjin 2y agoWhere is the decision not appealable? IIRC, X still can appeal to the entire supreme court about the decision.
- virgulino 2y agoX no longer has any business or legal representative in Brazil.
- Xunjin 2y agoIf they want to operate in Brazil, they do need a legal representation, it's literally the law.
- virgulino 2y agoNo, that's not what the law says. The law says that you need legal representation to be able to do business in Brazil. To sign contracts and pay taxes. Twitter no longer does business (i.e. doesn't sell ads) in Brazil. Twitter fired everyone and left Brazil a few weeks ago. Twitter is now like Hacker News. A billion-dollar American company (Y) that hosts user-created content, free to be used by anyone on the global Internet. Hacker News/Y does not need legal representation in Brazil.
- lobocinza 2y agoWhich law? No law says that. Also worth to notice that X closed it's office and fired everyone in Brazil because they threatened to arrest its employees which is absurd considering they have no administrative authority or technical capability to comply with those orders.
- chihwei 2y agoLast time the dictator threatened X to arrest their lawyer in the country, so X abandoned their operations in the country.
- sabbaticaldev 2y agowhat a big loss, what will we do without the bots and memes?
- timeon 2y agoI'm in EU and I'm already restricted by Twitter because i have no account.
- yimmothathird 2y ago[flagged]