The ban follows a long-running battle between Brazil’s supreme court and Elon Musk. It shows the country will no longer tolerate tech giants ignoring the rule of law.
    • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
      39·
      3 months ago

      They were banned for refusing to follow Brazilian laws, specially laws about disinformation. Twitter was banned in Brazil because its actively working as a propaganda outlet.

      Propaganda = authoritarianism

      • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        I think they were banned because they didn’t have a representative in the country that they could serve those allegations to.

        • stochastic_parrot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10·
          3 months ago

          No, that’s an oversimplification. The judge has been asking the representatives in Brazil to block some accounts that have been spreading disinformation. The representatives replied to the judge saying they’re just representatives and X/Twitter wouldn’t comply with that request. In Brazil, if you’re the representative of a company, you have to have the power to comply with Brazil’s laws. As they were not complying, the judge gave them extra time to comply and mentioned if they didn’t comply, the local president/director/representative would go to jail. That’s when X/Twitter closed the representation in Brazil.

          After that, the only action left available for the judge was to block X/Twitter.

          • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            The judge also blocked all bank accounts for Starlink, a different company.

            While I think the ban is justified, the power the judge has is definitely fishy too.

    • SamvegaEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yes, I do have the authority to ban you from my house. That isn’t authoritarianism, it’s just not wanting you in my house.