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Brazil’s supreme court upholds ban on Elon Musk’s X over ‘illegal conduct’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Members of Brazil’s supreme court have unanimously voted to uphold the ban on X, after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws led to the social network being blocked in one of its biggest markets.

On Monday, five of the court’s justices were asked to consider Friday’s decision to temporarily banish X from Brazil, where the platform has more than 21 million users. By lunchtime all five had voted in favour of the ban.

Casting his vote in favour of X’s continued suspension, Flávio Dino said the company’s decision to “deliberately” ignore a court order to name a legal representative in Brazil suggested it “considered itself above the rule of law”.

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[+] [email protected] -20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There is absolutely no saint in this whole story. Musk is a billionaire trying to play god, while the supreme court is also trying to play god. Both consider themselves "above the rule of law", while an entire population (composed of 200 million people) is divided between "Musk is right, let's impeach Moraes" and "Moraes is right, let's jail Musk". There's no good or evil here, for me, it's the grand-old classic Divide et impera. It's so obvious!

The good side of all this is that people are slowly learning about decentralized platforms, getting a little closer to tech-savvy. People are discovering fediverse, even if it's through a not-so-good fediverse instance (Threads from Meta, or Bluesky). When people really literate themselves about the decentralization, it'll be harder for both state bureaucracies as well as for corporations. The mastodon in the room which neither corps nor govs want to talk about (pun intented).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh dear, "both sides are the same", amirite?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Musk literally refused to comply to the supreme court of Brazil. How the heck are they in the wrong for blocking X?