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I’m glad I don’t live in Brazil. Why ban X? It makes no sense.
by slowhadoken 2y ago
I’m glad I don’t live in Brazil. Why ban X? It makes no sense.
- tumsfestival 2y ago[flagged]
- viburnum 2y agoPeople used it to organize an attempted coup against a democratically elected government and twitter is not cooperating with the investigation.
- Green_Frog 2y agoCoup without firearms. How does that work? Are the people supposed to shout their lungs out until the government decides to step down cooperatively?
- slowhadoken 2y agoBloodless coups are a thing.
- slowhadoken 2y agoI’m pretty sure that’s the CIA’s job. Isn’t it because Brazil doesn’t have free speech so they have absurd “hate speech” laws similar to the ones that are backfiring in Scotland right now?
- viburnum 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_attack
- whatshisface 2y agoI don't see how that argument would leave coffee shops and other gathering places able to stay open during elections.
- lanstin 2y agoCoup not election and if they don't cooperate with an investigation of an attempt to subvert the election with violence, they might not.
- slowhadoken 2y agoSomeone from Brazil said they have no rule of law right now, they have a dictatorship. So Musk would be complying with a despot, not the law enforced by Brazilian representatives.
- slowhadoken 2y agoI’m reading some more and the election interference happened under Jack Dorsey‘s Twitter not Elon Musk’s X. The Twitter employees involved were fired in the purge after Musk bought and assumed control of the website.
- matheusmoreira 2y agoIt was a protest. There was no coup attempt. A coup attempt would be the military launching the operation to seize power and failing. An actual coup would be the military trying it and succeeding. They didn't try to seize power for themselves. They wanted the military to seize power so it could rule them instead of the elected president. There's a difference. They thought the military would be better rulers. That's just their political position. There's simply no way you can convincingly claim that a bunch of people, many of them elderly, equipped with bibles and brazilian flags, tried to seize power in the brazilian capital. This country is pathetic but it can't possibly be so weak that it could suffer a coup by people like that.
- threeseed 2y agoBecause X is not complying with the law in that country. Whether the law is right or not is irrelevant. You either comply or leave.
- slowhadoken 2y agoWow sounds totalitarian. Maybe it’s for the best that Musk disassociates with Brazil.
- threeseed 2y agoThe foundation of any society are rules. So unless you think every society is totalitarian your point makes no sense.
- yazzku 2y agoThe dictatorship of those who think differently than I do.
- slowhadoken 2y agoSomeone from Brazil is saying they have a dictatorship right now so I guess it’s more complicated than that.
- kelseyfrog 2y agoUsually folks conceive of the continuum like so Rule of Law >-------------< Complete Corruption How do you think about it?
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoWhere do you live that you don't follow laws (, rules, and norms), and so isn't 'totalitarian'? Must be great.
- enaaem 2y agoIf they just had more oil, then US could bring them democracy.