Twitter returns to Brazil after Elon Musk caves to country's demands
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- Oct 09, 2024
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! Elon Musk, self-described champion of free speech, has now successfully brought the Twitter platform back to Brazil—and all it took, turns out, was going back on everything he said he wouldn’t do, capitulating to legal demands he denounced as gross abuses of government power, and then giving the Brazilian government several million dollars. Heroism: It’s just that easy, folks!
This is per BBC News, which reports that Brazilian authorities issued an order to return Twitter to the country’s servers on Tuesday, after Musk and Twitter reportedly agreed to the court’s demands to block several accounts accused of spreading misinformation during the country’s last presidential election. (And also paid $5.1 million in fines accrued as the company previously tried to fight back against the rulings.) Musk had been feuding with Brazilian justices about members of these “digital militias” since April, calling the government an “oppressive regime” that was trying to force him to curtail free speech. (Causing Brazil to eventually ban the social media service back at the end of August.) Today, meanwhile, he used his own free speech to have Twitter say it was “proud to return to Brazil,” after the accounts in question were eventually banned.
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