Technology @lemmy.world Xatolos @reddthat.com 3 mo. ago

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

finance.yahoo.com X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil "effective immediately" due to what it called "censorship orders" by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, claims Moraes secretly threatened one of the company's legal re...

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Aw. Do us next please.

Kind regards,

Europe
- USA next. If we can ban TikTok, we can do Twitter too!
  
  Ugh, TikTok isn't banned in the US...
- Hopefully it is first brick in the wall, after Brazil finds it did not collapse due to absence of twitter
  
  Unless Twitter geoblocks Brazil or bans all users who set their country to Brazil it will not be absent there. As far as I can tell Twitter doesn’t use country specific tlds or subdomains, so nothing will materially change for Brazilian users.
For everyone that interpreted this as saying that X will be banned here: It won't. X will still work. But all X staff in Brazil were laid off.
...and nothing of value was lost
- Except the jobs of all those Brazilian employees
  
  You're right, it was a bit too off the cuff of a remark. Though I can't imagine they've had fun there since the Muppet took over. Can you imagine being the poor bastard who had to tell Phony Stark about this whole thing? They probably had to remind him that their office existed only to have him sack everyone.
Congrats, Brazil!!
Brazil is based for once
How do we get some of them Brazilian content orders here in the states?
Does this harm twitter in any way?

I mean, if they are still reachable and usable in Brazil, they can still serve ads to those users and so it seems their business doesnt change much?

But there must have been some advantage for twitter in having an office there, otherwise they wouldnt have opened it in the first place.
- They can't sell Brazilian ads to Brazilians, as that needs an office/presence in Brazil. This hurts the value of ads that Xitter can charge when dealing with users in Brazil (Brazil is the largest economy in South America, and with Xitter already having ad money problems, it isn't a good thing for them.)
  
  So while they could still show ads to Brazilians, the fact is it would be for companies with offices outside Brazil, something not many would care about.
  
  Good. Let’s hope the public moves to mastodon.
  
  That makes sense. Thanks a lot for the explanation!
goodbye removed!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Lucky Brazil!

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