A private company has the right to ban anyone they want on their servers.
Of course, but they shouldnât claim they are defending freedom of speech. Espcially if said/written stuff is not illegal
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Interestingly, the Twitter files that leaked and the blocking that ensued was actually what put me and a lot of people I know on this privacy journey. I donât even use X, but seeing the actual orders of the judge was a huge eye opener.
One example: he ordered X to hand over the user data and IPs of everyone who tweeted â#DemocraticAuditableVoteâ, and that amounted to around 40,000 tweets, which later got reduced to 100-200 because Twitterâs DevOps said there were technical hurdles or something on getting that data.
Thankfully I wasnât one of them, but I sure wouldnât want to end up in a government list of dissidents sure because I tweeted a hashtag.
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Do they even have the legal authority for that? Thereâs almost no way everyone who tweeted that falls under their jurisdiction and if they donât then the government has no ground to order the user data.
I guess you can assume that a supreme court judge knows the law for his country very well. And his orders got confirmed by 4 other supreme court judges later so you can pretty much take it as a given that these request were lawful in Brazil.
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I more meant, Brazil as a country shouldnât have jurisdiction over information on people outside the country over just a hashtag and not actual threats, regardless of what their courts claim.
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I donât know if they have authority or not, maybe they do (I personally think they do) but this is the thing about the state of affairs in the country⌠A lot of these things happen in a legislative grey area where there is much ideological and political debate, leading to lack of trust. For instance recently a prominent left-wing news outlet leaked (sorry, pay walled) a bunch of decisions and recordings of the same judge, accusing him of abusing his authority during the last election, potentially in favor of the left. The Supreme Court has been criticized by a large portion of society, chiefly the right wing, for going beyond what is their lawful jurisdiction and abusing of monocratic decisions.
Then you would think the rest of the supreme court would help balance this, but the reality is that 9 of the 11 judges have been apointed by the ruling party. So one is left to wonder on whether political diversity is really present there.
Iâm not defending Musk here. He had it coming.
As is said in Brazil: this country is not for amateurs.
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