Billionairism is a serious disease.
It's like hoarding. Surprised Elon isn't more emotionally stricken when he loses gobs of
moneyself worth score.
I can't imagine being able to travel the world at my leisure eating the finest foods mankind has to offer and saving millions of lives through charitable donations and yet wasting my life, money, and time picking losing fights with governments while defending indefensible shitbags on the internet.
Must just be something about billionaires I don't understand 🤷♂️
It warms my calloused, embittered heart to see this.
But he’s a brilliant businessman. /s
I'm of two minds here... On the one hand Musk can suck it - but on the other I'm dismayed at how many people are jumping to defend a nation demanding the silencing of political opponents like this just because it injures Musk.
They can both be wrong. One side doesn't need to be "right" here.
Poking around I can’t find anything talking about the election being rigged at all, only older articles talking about Bolsanaro falsely claiming that the voting machines could be hacked and rigged.
The accounts that were requested to be suspended seem to have all been in relation to their own version of Jan. 6 and were spreading conspiracy and lies about the election. That’s a pretty major national security risk, honestly, if they’re trying to incite people to respond against a fairly elected government with violence.
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Free speech is all well and good but not everything that flaps out of someone’s gums is protected. Hate speech isn’t, defamation is a crime in most places, fraud is a real thing, etc. If these people are using their platform to heat the waters in an attempt to tear down a democratically elected government that’s no fucking bueno, my dude.
X also has a history of banning left-leaning accounts just because. He’s perfectly happy to silence political opponents for the right.
Hate speech isn’t,
In the US it is. Yes it really is - just stop it with this. At least read the wikipedia article. I'm so sick of seeing this claim as the first response to any "free speech" discussion. Do you ever wonder how the Westborough Baptist Church still exists?? Daily Stormer?? Other hate groups???
That’s a pretty major national security risk, honestly, if they’re trying to incite people to respond against a fairly elected government with violence.
Ahhh, the "national security risk" defense - always the safe haven of the totalitarian. This is how China justifies quieting dissidents to great effect. Speech that is dangerous to the government isn't always a bad thing. Imagine somebody who thinks your speech is dangerous is in power.
Letting the government decide which speech is dangerous to it or not is a very risky thing.
If these people are using their platform to heat the waters in an attempt to tear down a democratically elected government that’s no fucking bueno, my dude.
Oh you don't think so? What if that "democratically elected government" is Putin? Because guess how many votes he got in the last election.
So the X accounts belonged to legitimate political opponents, they weren't spreading disinformation?
I don't know about the judicial system in Brazil but they don't seem that corrupted...
You love to see it.
