I'm thankful for Sunshine for posting this. She's a real one!
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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And I'm also thankful for those who have upvoted this post instead of some generic US politics one. Gives some very needed diversity to the front page.
Proceeds to bring up the US anyway
couldn't they just turn off brazil? they do this to myanmar all the time
Makes sense for any country tondo this because as has become clear, it doesn't matter if you're a democracy or a dictatorship, if you are liking musk and face or not, X and meta can and will destabilize your country and once it happens, there is nothing you can do about it except banning the entire site, which will be an unpopular choice.
Musk especially has shown to be all about himself and he'll just push whatever political right wing party to destabilize a country.
Fuck x, fuck Facebook
Calling Twitter "X"??? One should not.
If countries don't start taking modern warfare seriously everyone is going to end up in far right authoritarian regimes that won't accept election results. Bolsonaro would love to come back and never leave.
Common Brazil W
not always considering bolsonaro existed and was a tech bros wet dream
Double entendre: “eu” means “me” in Portuguese
Nice
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based lula
Did not expect Brazil to be the hero we need right now, but I’m here for it.
Brazil has at least some history of fighting against tech giant's disrespect of regularions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil
I wonder how much biased is this article (in the sense that it was written mostly by male US citizens).
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Brazil has been on it lately. At least with sticking it to tech bros
Yeah, they found out they could win, when they stuck it to X and straight up banned them until they complied.
Just like the big tech companies have different ToS for EU consumers.
Mad respect to them, but it should be normal. But it's not.
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Brasil, please ban facebook. First twitter then facebook. Fuck the gready corporate assholes. Someone needs to make a first step and create a precedent, we need this. Social media will be (already is) the downfall of our civilization.
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Good. At least someone is saying something. More people and companies should voice their opinion.
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine Brazil apparently propping up the internet, but huge swathes of twitter shutdown when Brazil banned it a while back, for a short time.
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