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Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies

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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.
  
  Also like California passing public health laws and companies deciding it is easier to comply to the entire U.S. instead of duplicating product lines.
  
  Same State for car emission standards as well. Too bad our cities are shit holes because of all the car infrastructure though.
- All the BRICS have. Brazil just stands out, because its not a country we've flagged as "Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages".
  
  It also helps that unlike the R and the C in BRICS, they aren't imperialists threatening and/or invading their neighbours. Brazil is a good world citizen.
  
  Brazil is a good world citizen.
  Uhhh, did you forget that Brazil was being run by a fascist war criminal just a short while ago?
  
  So were lots of countries. At least they learned from their mistake, unlike the US.
  
  At least they learned from their mistake, unlike the US.
  If Brazil had learned from it's mistake it WOULDN'T HAVE ALLOWED A FASCIST INTO POWER, genius.
  
  I meant it in the "fool me once" sense. Americans went for a second helping at the trough of fascism.
  
  Americans went for a second helping at the trough of fascism.
  The US has been pro-fascist long, long before Mussolini gave it a name.
  
  short while
  IT'S BEEN 4 YEARS WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??
  
  And now it isn't, that's democracy, baby
  I fully agree that Bolsonaro was a straight up demon, but I also agree with the idea that - currently - the administration of Brazil is probably about as good an example of a good world citizen as it gets
  
  And now it isn’t, that’s democracy,
  Abso-fucking-lutely not. Fascists would NEVER be able to gain power in a truly democratic society. No ifs, ands or butts.
  Fascists are funded into power (and into existence) by CAPITALISTS - adherents to an ideology that is violently incompatible with anything that can be called democratic with a straight face.
  Brazil is not a democratic society. It is a (so-called) "liberal democracy" - something that can be more accurately described as 95% capitalism with some fake democracy substitute thrown in as a legitimising measure.
  That is THE WHOLE POINT of liberalism.
  
  Democracy isn't a magic anti-fascist spell, sorry to break it to you. If someone can convince enough of the population to elect them, then they get into power, fascist or not.
  By your definition, there really hasn't been a "real" democracy ever, frankly, since it depends on there being a state with no imbalance of wealth whatsoever. If that's how you want to define it, sure, go ahead, but I'm going to keep using a definition of democracy that's based on how the institutions of elections and the state are built, because that's a useful way to discuss political systems, and "democracy is when only leaders I like are elected" is not.
  Brazil's leaders are elected through universal suffrage, its speech and media are (relatively) free, that's a democracy by any reasonably useful definition. There's plenty to criticise in how that democracy functions, especially how money and power can influence those outcomes, but there is no perfect democracy, just the best attempts at what people can build within their existing social systems.
  Democracy is a political system, while capitalism is an economic system - understanding how they interact with each other is useful and important, but pretending they're mutually exclusive is unnecessarily reductive, and closes the space to actually discuss those things.
  Edit: the mere fact that Bolsonaro attempted to retain power by force, but was unable to do so in the face of losing the election is direct evidence that there are functional democratic institutions in Brazil
  
  Democracy isn’t a magic anti-fascist spell,
  Yes it is, genius. THAT IS LITERALLY WHY IT WAS INVENTED.
  If someone can convince enough of the population to elect them, ~~then they get into power, fascist or not.~~
  If power is conveniently centralized for a fascist to take control of, Clyde, IT MEANS YOU NEVER HAD A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY TO START OFF WITH.
  By your definition, there really hasn’t been a blah, blah, blah....
  How the fuck do you liberals get through the day with all this foaming, nuclear-level incoherence bouncing around inside your heads?
  
  Democracy has existed far longer than fascism has... the earliest fascist movements weren't until the 1910s, while the earliest recorded democracy was around 508 BC, with the earliest recorded usage of the term in the 430s BC. You're wrong by a margin of millennia
  My dear god, this is history fundamentals. And the sheer balls you've got to have to be that rude while being just this severely wrong is obscene.
  
  Democracy has existed far longer than fascism has…
  And? Are you so utterly brain-addled as to believe that hierarchical violence was invented in the 20th century?
  the earliest fascist movements weren’t until the 1910s,
  Oh, right... for a minute there I almost forgot that liberals only call it "fascism" when the victims are white.
  while the earliest recorded democracy was around 508 BC
  So it was invented all that time ago, and you STILL don't have the foggiest idea what it actually is, eh?
  That tracks, liberal.
  My dear god, this is history fundamentals.
  Again. How the fuck do you liberals get through the day with all this foaming, nuclear-level incoherence bouncing around inside your heads?
  Seriously - I'd like to know.
  
  believe that hierarchical violence was invented in the 20th century
  Well that's just not what I said - you specifically said fascism, which was invented in the 20th century. It has more specific characteristics than just hierarchical violence; ethno-nationalism, militarisation of the state, flexible suppression of opposition and centralised autocracy.
  Just because you're mad about being corrected doesn't mean you need to be a dick about it.
  
  Save it for the next fascist your (supposedly) "democratic" system siccs on you, liberal.
  
  You’re pinning for a system that prevents fascism, but it doesn’t exist. You prevent it through other sociological structures. The method for selecting power can’t do what you want it to do.
  But by all means, keep trying to bait people online, I’m sure that helps you somehow.
  
  a system that prevents fascism, but it doesn’t exist.
  Who brainwashed you into thinking that? The liberals who always come up with a 1001 excuses to keep fascism around, perhaps?
  You prevent it through other sociological structures.
  And what "sociological structures" would these be, pray tell?
  The method for selecting power can’t do what you want it to do.
  Oh we cannot democratically decide what power should do or how it should be distributed, eh?
  Why am I not surprised that your TRUE ideology turns out to be as anti-democratic as the status quo you are shilling for?
  
  As long as it keeps censoring its citizens, everthing fine! 🙄
  
  Eh?
  
  Fact checking is censorship apparently.
  
  The old system of using fact-checking agencies was biased, and the content they deemed false had its reach negatively impacted. They were literally the arbiters of truth, and their actions silenced their political opponents' voices. The new system of Community Notes is superior because it requires approval from people with diverse political alignments to show a fact-check to everyone.
  
  Because remember you need a Nazi and a tankie to agree with facts in order for it to be the real truth.
  Sometimes reality doesn't align with political views. Doesn't mean it's not facts
  
  So you're set to automatically complain unless the fact-check aligns perfectly with your worldview?
  
  Projecting much?
  
  you need a Nazi and a tankie to agree
  I thought you just believed the opposite of whatever your political adversaries believed, because they were always lying
  
  Not all, India is in BRICS and they are part of the problem in the tech world.
  
  It's so disappointing. India has a massive tech service industry and could've been a force for good, but the government loves their censorship and authoritarianism too much.
  
  The limited view I have into the CEO culture there seems even more toxic than America's.
  
  because its not a country we’ve flagged as “Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages”.
  Unless the subject is Amazon deforestation, in which case we have to stop these inhuman savages from destroying this global patrimony (mine). Please don't ask who's buying the cattle and soy being grown there or running the mining companies or where I got all this fertile land.
  
  Idk which video was, but Brazil tremendously improved on the Amazon deforestation issue. https://youtu.be/6gI-wKbKfeI
  
  Yes, a lot of things changed for the better once they got rid of Bolsonaro
  
  You have a cool profile!
  
  Aww thank you!
  
  Not India afaik
  
  Or south Africa.

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