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New X Court Filing Says It's Complying with Brazil's Orders to Block Accounts (techcrunch.com) 41

Posted by EditorDavid from the what-is-happening dept.
X's struggles in Brazil got this update from the Guardian Wednesday: In a statement tweeted from X's global government affairs account, the company said the restoration of service was an "inadvertent and temporary" side-effect of switching network providers.
But Friday "After defying court orders in Brazil for three weeks, Mr. Musk's social network, X, has capitulated," writes the New York Times. "In a court filing on Friday night, the company's lawyers said that X had complied with orders from Brazil's Supreme Court in the hopes that the court would lift a block on its site."

"The company's lawyers said X had complied with the court's orders — blocking designated accounts, paying fines, and naming a new formal representative in the country," writes TechCrunch (citing reporting by the New York Times): In a filing of its own, the Supreme Court reportedly responded by telling X it had not provided the proper paperwork and giving it five days to do so....

X came back online in Brazil earlier this week, although Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told TechCrunch that the timing of the company's recent switch to Cloudflare infrastructure is just a "coincidence." During the ban, Brazilian users sought out social media alternatives, leading to dramatic growth at Bluesky and Tumblr.
The New York Times believes "The moment showed how, in the yearslong power struggle between tech giants and nation-states, governments have been able to keep the upper hand."

Although I'm curious about that missing paperwork...

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  • I had my bets on "nominal compliance" i.e. paying the fine and complying with the court orders, followed shortly by "voluntarily" shutting down X in Brazil.

    In other words, I was expecting him to throw the businessman's equivalent of a temper tantrum and say "Okay, fine, have it your way, no X for you!" and stomp off fuming.

  • Brazil ordered Musk to hire some local staff. He can't afford to.

    Before Musk Twitter made $5bn/yr and still lost 500m a year. This means their expenses were around $6bn.

    Musk cut those expenses a *lot*. He claims 80%, which I'm skeptical of but let's give him that. That means Twitter's expenses are now $1.2bn a year.

    But Twitter's revenue is down 84%, e.g. it's $800m a year, so they're still losing $400m a year.

    I mean that's technically an improvement, except a) they're operating so close to t

    • Meanwhile he's promising self driving cars again because he's out of ideas, and we keep falling for it anyway.

      Mister Ketamine has a cult following. There isn't much we can do about that, other than let it self destruct.

      It's like the people who now believe that Chocolate people in Ohio are eating our pets, and that 20 million people cam into the USA, as his boss claims.

      It's like the Cybertruck is the best truck ever, and that the hyperloop is creating a revolution in transport, and that we're gonna have crew dragons landing on Mars since 2016. Just bullshit lapped up by their cultists, like God's voice to th

      • Chocolate people? A city of 60 thousand people got 20 thousand Haitian migrants dumped on them over a few years.
        Look at this news report from 2 months ago (before the big hoopla): https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

        Incredible challenges with the school system, the police and fire departments, local services! Look, you can't just expect 20 THOUSAND people, from an impoverished and under-developed civilization to just acclimate into modern life. There's videos of guys walking down the street with ducks and g

        • Right wingers don't have any solutions so they're always trying to change the topic back to immigrants. Not to actually *solving* the refugee crisis, heavens no you couldn't win elections w/o that boogeyman. But just some nebulous LOOK OVER THERE IT'S A SCARY IMMIGRANT! kinda way.

          Meanwhile you've criminalized abortion and we've got our 1st confirmed death, you're planning to criminalize it nation wide and you'll start rounding up women who miscarry and charging them with murder.

          And *that's* what you

          • I don't really want to solve it by letting a bazillion people into the country. How many are you putting up in your house?

            Also, that 'first death' is a lie / misleading. There was no law preventing her from seeking help:
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

            Just dig around a bit and there's always more context to be found...

            • Because you're about to set that straw man on fire if you are.

              Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have the right idea you give a shitload of foreign aid to the countries where the refugees come from and they stop coming.

              But that's not going to stop immigration because the Republican party and Donald Trump are desperate for that sweet sweet sweet cheap labor.

              You're not going to stop it so you should have been working on a federal jobs guarantee and a federal housing guarantee and universal healthcare so

              • You sound completely nuts man... Oh well, it's a free country, I disagree with you but would fight for your right to your opinion.

            • How many are you putting up in your house?

              There are three immigrants living in my house, including my spouse.

              Four if you count a CRBA.

        • A city of 60 thousand people got 20 thousand migrants dumped on them

          How do you think America was started? Imagine thousands of Europeans being dumped on the original American Indians.
          You are more than likely a descendant of an illegal immigrant.

          There's videos of guys walking down the street with ducks and geese.

          Let me guess, Karen? You want to make it illegal to walk in public holding meat.

        • There's videos of guys walking down the street with ducks and geese

          What's wrong with ducks and geese?

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by sinij ( 911942 )

      But Twitter's revenue is down 84%,

      Yes, there is conspiracy [house.gov] to to harm X [reuters.com] for ideological reasons.

  • > Although I'm curious about that missing paperwork...

    Who exactly is curious? What is this, SlashdotWeekend? Stop the lazy and attribute this stupid quote.

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