SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil "effective immediately" due to what it called "censorship orders" by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, claims Moraes secretly threatened one of the company's legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform. The social media giant published pictures of a document allegedly signed by Moraes which says a daily fine of 20,000 reais ($3,653) and an arrest decree would be imposed against X representative Rachel Nova Conceicao if the platform did not fully comply to Moraes' orders.
  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Hopefully it is first brick in the wall, after Brazil finds it did not collapse due to absence of twitter

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Unless Twitter geoblocks Brazil or bans all users who set their country to Brazil it will not be absent there. As far as I can tell Twitter doesn’t use country specific tlds or subdomains, so nothing will materially change for Brazilian users.

      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        As someone who has some social media including Twitter geoblocked… No, this is not enough to make a social media die down in a region lol

        • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          This is true. I guess I should have said “Unless twitter geoblocks or bans Brazilian users, they’re not even making an attempt to be absent there”.