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I see a lot of commenters here holding up Brazil's actions to an American yardstick. If you want to do buisiness abroad you have to follow their rules and their

• andsoitis 2y ago
  > If you want to do buisiness abroad you have to follow their rules and their norms. If you want to attract business you have to create a reliable and fair system that people can trust in. Once you break that, it is near impossible to regain.
  • ben_w 2y ago
    While true, "reliable" and "fair" don't necessarily have to bend to what foreigners think they should mean. Heck, Americans don't even agree with each other what those things mean in contexts like this.
    • inglor_cz 2y ago
      You won't ever have a common definition thereof, but looking at capital and human movement, a lot more people trust the US than Brazil with their money and lives.
      • ben_w 2y ago
        Indeed, though the stuff the judge here is trying to deal with — regardless of any considerations of if they're doing the right thing, just the problem itself — is in part related to making Brazil safer to live in than it was itself previously. One could reasonably also argue that the drop-off of advertising to X is itself a sign of lack of trust in Musk's decision making process, his rules, and his reliability. (And he bought Twitter while claiming Twitter's rules were unfair; as you say, no common agreement).