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

submitted 3 months ago by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

The funny thing is, the right in America are trying to push laws that make the company responisible for user posted content.

If that happens, and I go to twitter and post something illegal, I'M still liable for breaking the laws, but now so is twitter.

So eventually, if he tries to be above the law in America, SOMEBODY is going to post child porn. Then, by their own laws, twitter is liable for that illegal action.

This is going to lead to one of two things. Either

Twitter shuts down

Musk goes to jail.

Aw hell.....who am I kidding? It's going to be "Well, he's one of us. It's a big club, and you ain't in it".

He'll pay a 2 million dollar fine, which is peanuts to him, and this shitty world will keep on going.