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X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

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www.reuters.com /technology/x-close-operations-brazil-effective-immediately-2024-08-17/

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X to close operations in Brazil 'effective immediately'

www.reuters.com /technology/x-close-operations-brazil-effective-immediately-2024-08-17/

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Congrats Brazil

“Brazil sees massive drop in alt right hate speech”

finally some fucking good news

Lucky for them

Well-played, Brazil

One down couple hundred more to go.

GOOD. Elon doesnt get to taunt us with a coup unpunished.
- You apparently forget he said Twitter needed major before he bought it.
  It's by design. 🤦🏼‍♂️
  
  i know and this is why banning it is a good thing. fuck twitter.

Earlier this year, Moraes ordered X to block certain accounts, as he investigates so-called "digital militias" that have been accused of spreading fake news and hate messages during the government of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro.
That sounds very "on brand" for the company these days.
Should journalists start referring to the platform as "the far-right hate speech platform formerly known as Twitter"?
- Too wordy. Try: Naxi.
  
  I like it. I really enjoy calling it Xitter though.

Brazil does not fuck around. They famously jailed several Microsoft execs when they didn't hand over some emails a few years ago.
Edit: Skype data not emails and one exec
- They famously jailed several Microsoft execs when they didn’t hand over some emails a few years ago.
  And somehow, thats a good thing? To break the security of communication on demand of the gouverment?
  
  I never said it was a good thing. I was just commenting on the aggressive nature of Brazil LEO. Microsoft in particular bends over backwards for any gov't or LEO. I can only assume the Feds got substantial leverage over them, perhaps by manipulating the antitrust cases. Same tactics they use on the smaller guys works on the big corps too I guess. Top customer of MS legal compliance is by far the US Fed with 5000-7000 blanket surveillance of Americans presumably part of PRISM. Second highest is definitely Brazil, and they are very demanding and impatient.
  Back in 2016, MS was advertising Customer Lockbox as an answer to gov't intrusion into customer privacy. It sounded perfect. Customer gets encryption keys so MS cannot comply with lawful interception requests. I think Apple does this, and it works well for them and their customers. However today I cannot tell if MS lied, dismantled this aspect of this feature, or buried it such that no one uses this ability.
  While we're talking about MS playing snitch, watch out for Windows 11 and the TPM hardware requirement. Sure this might be a useful tool to fight ransomware scammers, but it definitely can also be used to fingerprint a PC and make everything potentially traceable. Look up machine identification code aka yellow dots for a nifty parallel in the printer world (pun intended).

Excellent

I really wonder how long X aka Twitter can operate within the EU. The EU is on a smiliar tracetion in my opinion.

I would not mind if my countries' judges grew the same kind of brass balls that the Brazilain Judge sports.

This Nazi war-mongering website needs to be shut down everywhere.

So Bolsonaro won't get elected again, uh.
I'm surprised to be saying this but thank you Elon Muppet.
- afaik he's still barred from running for office until 2030, as a result of undermining the validity of the electoral process - the same process that once elected him btw...
  
  He'll be 75yo in '30. Still viable as a candidate.
  And, for '26, he's still the one deciding who's going to run for his party. One of the options is his wife Michelle Bolsonaro, a vulture from the same flock as her husband.
  Now with Twitter out of the equation they'll have a harder reaching their base.
  EDIT: actually scrap that. It's only its offices, the service will be still available. Fuck it, now I'm sour.