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Let me summarize exactly how Elon showed his entire ass here 🧵: -Brazil asked Elon to ban 7 fascist accounts spreading disinformation -Elon refused pretending it was a free speech issue even though he complied multiple times with similar requests from right wing govts
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-Brazil ordered Elon to explain himself via a lawyer -Elon refused again -Brazil shut down “X”, fined him, and took Starlink money to pay for the fines -Elon relentless attacked and threatened the judge who ordered it, posting hundreds of times about him
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-Threads and BlueSky started picking up millions of new users and Elon began losing even more advertisers -Elon gave in and gave Brazil everything it wanted, blocking the accounts and paying all fines, gained literally nothing -Elon hasn’t said a word about it
This is playing out just like how MySpace worked out for Fox once they realized they were ill equipped to run a social media platform. Forbes estimates that Twitter is now worth 10% of the 44 billion he bought it for with nothing on the horizon to reverse course. Leon is f**ked.
Competition is great, 😃 lesson 112. 👍 Everyone of us on X should: 1) open an account with Bsky - it's free ffs! you lose nothing; and 2) re-create their social graph follows-followers - painful manual work, but at least one great AddOn exists that eases that chore by a factor
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Elon Musk has learned from Putin not only how to run a disinformation campaign, but also how to play games with national governments. His results show that he is on the level of his mentor.
In a normal corporate structure a CEO would be fired by the board for this level of incompetence. What will it take for Elon to be out of Twitter so this company can survive?
Living in Brazil, I can confidently say that the judge has been carrying out cruel persecutions. He exclusively targets opponents of the current government, not only banning statements but also forcing Big Tech companies to block accounts, from 16-year-old girls to Brazilian
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This judge doesn’t follow the law, he uses creativity. In Brazil, there’s no legal security. This newspaper, one of the top 5 in the country, is being investigated, and its journalists are being threatened with prison simply for publishing this story.
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Essentially, the Brazilian government realized it had more power than Elon, and that for x, it would give a market to its biggest competitors, that's a good way to lose your supremacy
Let me summarize the reason this is all happening
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Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex | SRS #132 youtu.be/o98Y1cEja-U?si via @YouTube
Why does Feigl-Ding like to re-post vulgar messages attacking Elon, the Right, and others? I thought he was a Doc of some kind, or researcher, but is he a political operator? Anyone? Answers? Who does he really work for?
Who’s “disinformation” are we talking about here? You mean speech the Brazilian government didn’t like?