X (formerly Twitter) could soon resume service in Brazil — if it’s willing to pay an additional fine.

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    1 month ago

    Wasn’t X banned in Brazil because the government wanted to censor people who were critical of the government, and X said “we’re not going to do that”?

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      It was banned because twitter failed to appoint a legal representative, a condition of doing business in Brazil. Failing to appoint a legal representative is kind of like sticking your fingers in your ears ‘nya nya nya nya’ and hoping your problems go away. They didn’t.

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      It was banned because it didn’t follow court orders to remove illegal content from it’s platform, yes. Whether the content was rightfully illegal, I don’t know because I didn’t see it, one side claims that it “was critical of the government” the other side claims that it “was inciting hate and violence”.

      Now I hope that we can agree that there are valid reasons to remove and ban online content, and from the news I hear about Twitter since it was bought by Musk I think the content was rightfully banned. Just knowing that Musk was against the ban is enough for me to believe so.