This could also go in the presidential election thread, but I’m putting it here for now:
tl,dr: many fake accounts using stolen photos of European fashion models are posting MAGA and anti-LGBTQ propaganda. They were clearly violating twitter’s rules for blue check mark accounts.
While FB doesn’t have a similar thing, there are millions of accounts that are clearly fake, where someone is impersonating a member of the military or some government official or some hot chick in Southeast Asia or Russia. This continues unabated, despite FB allegedly having “official” policies against that kind of stuff.
It continues and will go on forever until someone finally launches a competitor service that is at least as good if not better, because both Zuckerberg and Musk don’t give a shit about integrity. They only give a shit about how they can make a buck off of everyone else.
That is why I call it “Antisocial Media.”
Someone stole that from me, then went back in time to claim the moniker. Do your own research, if you don’t believe me, though. It’s as clear as day, as long as you know which rocks to look under.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazilian-court-suspend-x-brazil-if-musk-does-not-name-new-country-2024-08-28/
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday ordered billionaire Elon Musk to name a legal representative for his messaging platform X in Brazil within 24 hours or face the site’s suspension in the country.
Earlier this month, X announced it would close its operations and fire its staff in Brazil due to what it called “censorship orders” from the judge, Alexandre de Moraes. Its service would remain available for users in Brazil, it said.
a bit of background
As João Brant, digital policy secretary for Brazil’s Secretariat of Social Communication, recently told Wired, “We have a background that is different from the US. It’s more similar to the European concept of freedom of expression.” Since the internet emerged from the United States, there has been an effort to have the US conception of free speech pushed onto the rest of the world because it benefited the US tech companies that rode the internet’s coattails into international markets. But different societies have their own standards of acceptable discourse — and for Brazil, planning to overthrow a democratically elected government is a step too far, regardless of what an American billionaire might think. As Bloomberg columnist Juan Pablo Spinetto explained, “Are calls to overthrow a democratically elected government protected by free speech? It may be the case in the US under the first amendment, but in other developed countries such speech can well be considered sedition.”
TLDROC: In 2023 the Far-Right in Brazil attempted to overthrow the government and failed. Brazilian court orders the release of IP addresses of every Brazilian X account which is allowed in Brazilian law. Elon Refuses. Brazilian court threatens to arrest X’s legal rep in Brazil (a legal rep on Brazilian soil is required by Brazilian law). Elon closes the X offices in Brazil. Brazil is suspending X from operating in Brazil.
But Hunter Biden’s laptop.
It is unsafe for people triggered by their Dear Leader’s crimes being shot on video.
And they are the biggest product (not users or consumers; product) for X.
It really is a shame that however many months later, there’s still no clear alternative to Twitter.
No, the other social media shithole’s product doesn’t count; it’s basically the same thing but in a different name.
I joined Bluesky a while back hoping it would take off. Unfortunately not too many folks have migrated there.
Fixed, for accuracy.
Honestly, I wonder what is stopping anyone from making a new one. I mean, even reddit sucks.
the shame is that so many people keep using Twitter / X at all, rather than that there’s no alternative.
Alternative exists: not at all.
This guy gets it
Beyond the service formerly known as Twitter being forbidden in Brazil (quoting the NYT article):
Sorry Musk…but you are not in Kansas anymore.
Judges in Brazil have some pretty serious reach.
Its not a good idea to keep goading them.
Makes sense. He’s losing a shitload of money on Twitter, might as well shovel some more cash into that fiery pit.
Musk is a lot like Trump in that he believes the rules don’t apply to powerful people like him. To paraphrase Leona Helmsley:
“We don’t play by the rules. The little people play by the rules.”
