X (formerly Twitter) could soon resume service in Brazil — if it’s willing to pay an additional fine.
X faces additional $1.9M fine to end ban in Brazil
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/28/x-faces-additional-1-9m-fine-to-end-ban-in-brazil/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/28/x-faces-additional-1-9m-fine-to-end-ban-in-brazil/
X (formerly Twitter) could soon resume service in Brazil — if it’s willing to pay an additional fine.
10 Comments
Corigan@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
That's it? Twitter is going to be sad it lost it couch cushion money.
parpol@programming.dev · -7 pts · 1y
Wasn't X banned in Brazil because the government wanted to censor people who were critical of the government, and X said "we're not going to do that"?
CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y
It was banned because twitter failed to appoint a legal representative, a condition of doing business in Brazil. Failing to appoint a legal representative is kind of like sticking your fingers in your ears 'nya nya nya nya' and hoping your problems go away. They didn't.
rhandyrhoads@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Not to defend musk, but wasn't this because they threatened to arrest the legal representative so they got recalled back to the states?
lostinfog@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y
Where do you get your news? X?
parpol@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
That's what happened from what I heard.
lostinfog@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y
No it didn’t
parpol@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
https://apnews.com/article/x-brazil-de-moraes-musk-censorship-social-media-a5237159da8dcba5786765b59e24ec6f
lostinfog@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 1y
Ok then, if they claim it must be true, right? /s
Tacoma@feddit.org · 11 pts · 1y
It was banned because it didn't follow court orders to remove illegal content from it's platform, yes. Whether the content was rightfully illegal, I don't know because I didn't see it, one side claims that it "was critical of the government" the other side claims that it "was inciting hate and violence".
Now I hope that we can agree that there are valid reasons to remove and ban online content, and from the news I hear about Twitter since it was bought by Musk I think the content was rightfully banned. Just knowing that Musk was against the ban is enough for me to believe so.