Brazil Blocks X (Twitter)

It's very hard to block satellite internet, but you can stop them getting any income

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/08/3 … ible-x-ban

As for Musk - I don't trust him for a second. Apart from the price of his services, I won't trust him with my data.

I just read that articles of impeachment will be filed today against Justice de Moraes. It stated 150 members of congress support his removal citing abuse of power and violations of constitutional rights.

This was posted on Rio Times online.

X works in Brasil. You just need to use the correct tools which they cannot trace. I was able to open the homepage to create an account and login if I wished to do so.

I don't have an account on X or any other social media per say, like Reddit, Facebook, etc, save for 2-3 unique specific small volume forums like this one and a couple of car forums. I follow world news of Telegram, but do not post there either.

Lula has slit his own throat with this one. The protest on Saturday in Sao Paulo had 1MM peeps in the street. Everyone in Brasil hated the ditadura for their censorship, and now they have a return of it thru Moraes/Lula.......only 110MM votes where counted in 2022, and 20MM people in Brasil use X and I bet you they all vote too. Lula won with 52%.......you do the math. All tyrannies collapse, which is what is slowly starting to occur across the G7/EU spectrum now.

09/09/24   I just read that articles of impeachment will be filed today against Justice de Moraes. It stated 150 members of congress support his removal citing abuse of power and violations of constitutional rights.
This was posted on Rio Times online.
   

    -@KenAquarius

150 may sound like a lot in a headline, but there are 513 members in the Chamber of Deputies.   It probably won't go anywhere there, and even if it does, the Senate will kill it.  Team Coup is noisy and dangerous, but still outnumbered; they seem to be even less popular now than they were on January 8, 2023.

09/09/24 The protest on Saturday in Sao Paulo had 1MM peeps in the street. Everyone in Brasil hated the ditadura for their censorship, and now they have a return of it thru Moraes/Lula.......

    -@Gasparzinho 777

Sounds like somebody borrowed their crowd counters from the Trump Campaign 😂.  The Polícia Militar is not releasing a crowd estimate, but the University of São Paulo, as quoted by both Globo and Estadão, estimated the crowd size was about 45 THOUSAND.  That seems like a better fit with the aerial photos than a million.

As for history, I lived here during the "Anos de Chumbo", some of the worst of the military dictatorship.  I was detained twice by their police; Lula, as a matter of fact, was detained much more often, and much longer -- he didn't have a US passport, after all.  If he had any interest in emulating them, he certainly would know how.  There is nothing that Lula or Xandão have done or even suggested that comes close to the dictatorship.  NOTHING.

@abthree  l don’t know much about the legal system in Brazil. I suspect it’s a lot of grand standing, posturing, and looking for headlines (the same as here). As an outsider looking in, it does seem like he is stretching his authority. Threatening to fine people for using a VPN seems rather heavy handed, and something l would expect from a country like Venezuela, not Brazil.

@abthree

The state always lies. Remember the last big anti-Lula protest in Copacabana ? The state said 200,000 people, yet the drone photos, when placed beside Reveillon pics from years past looked similar.......heh.

Rebel News from Canada came down and did drone flights. Check out their site rebelnews.com and judge from that, because, you won't find ANYTHING as encompassing on any US or left wing media site.

I'm not anti Lula or anti Bolsonaro either, I judge issues and both Kmen have good and bad positions. Moraes though, he's a criminal with a checkered legal past. I would not be surprised if Blackrock, who refused to in est in Brasil when Bolsonaro was president is behind Lula's release which was spearheaded by him.

The site isn't letting me edit the spelling mistakes in my last post so I'll just state that "denial of reality" is a common trait of mentally unbalanced people.

We can debate crowd sizing photos, but the number of voters and number of Brasilian X subscribers we cannot. A massive strategic miscalculation has taken place on Lula's part.

Team Coup is noisy and dangerous, but still outnumbered; they seem to be even less popular now than they were on January 8, 2023.

Agree. The vast majority of people worldwide could care less about Twitter.  That's just a fact.  It's a niche platform.  That is most evident in the cavalier way advertisers leave the platform as they flee the toxicity.  There was an article in the Washington Post titled: "No X in Brazil? No problem, Brazilians say." A key quote was:

Last week’s imbroglio has made even more apparent the network’s growing weakness here. Justice Alexandre de Moraes, one of the world’s most aggressive prosecutors against misinformation, ordered X to block accounts that Moraes said were threatening democracy. The judge requested that Musk name a representative in Brazil to carry out judicial orders. Musk refused, Moraes suspended X — and Brazilians shrugged.

09/09/24 but the number of voters and number of Brasilian X subscribers we cannot. A massive strategic miscalculation has taken place on Lula's part.        -@Gasparzinho 777

I don't deny the number of voters, because the TSE vouches for them, and I believe the TSE.  But I'm not a person who insists that "the state always lies."

As for the number of Brazilian X subscribers, well, who ultimately vouches for that is Elon Musk, and the evidence that HE lies whenever it suits him, and sometimes apparently just for fun is, well,  ... 🤷🏻‍♂️