RickyDiBiase
The Sword of Jesus of Nazareth
A yo
Ain’t it funny how every decade its a new boogeyman for right wing cacs
I’m old enough to remember it was the Rockefellers
UPDATE2: Elon MAD SupremeCourt bans X in🇧🇷(217M👤) after failing to name legal rep and block fake news & hate-accounts undermining democracy on time
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A yo
Ain’t it funny how every decade its a new boogeyman for right wing cacs
I’m old enough to remember it was the Rockefellers
I'm in agreeance. I think everyone is underestimating the societal harm this guy can do. And I have a feeling he's going to cause some real havoc around election time, especially if Trump loses and starts pushing election lies.
Elon Musk, out of control, should be threatened with arrest, says ex-Clinton secretary
Robert Reich, the former labor secretary, calls Elon Musk out of control and offers ways to limit his power, especially concerning X and SpaceX.m.economictimes.com
Robert Reich says apartheid baby should be arrested.
America has been exposed by Netanyahu, Murdock and Elon as having zero actual principles or care beyond the almighty Dollar.
If you have enough money or donors, your interests supersede those of actual US citizens and you are free to sow racial divisions between Americans (Fox and Musk) and better living standards and protection supplied by American tax payers (Israel).
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And the freedom to be a p€dophile and be safe if you’re one of them DEVILSAmerica has been exposed by Netanyahu, Murdock and Elon as having zero actual principles or care beyond the almighty Dollar.
If you have enough money or donors, your interests supersede those of actual US citizens and you are free to sow racial divisions between Americans (Fox and Musk) and better living standards and protection supplied by American tax payers (Israel).
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The tunnels are such a major story, but left the media cycle overnight..
Vanished into thin air never to be mentioned again.
Now had those been brehs with tunnels running between Canarsie and Flatbush, Schumer and Nadler would still be talking about arrests to this day
Twitter is just basically a white supremacist hate website like Stormtrooper’s Fr0n+ since Musk bought it. He’s going to hell for spreading this type of hate speech in 2024.
Bluesky (@bsky.app)
TWO MILLION new people in the last week! a very warm welcome! 🤗 DOIS MILHÕES de pessoas novas na última semana! uma calorosa recepção a todos! 🤗
bsky.app
TWO MILLION new people in the last week! a very warm welcome!
DOIS MILHÕES de pessoas novas na última semana! uma calorosa recepção a todos!
Sep 2, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Givethanks
Superstar
Isn't twitter/X banned in Pakistan, Venezuela, Russia, China, Egypt and Iran?
I got that from Al Jazeera
I got that from Al Jazeera
Brazil’s president says Elon Musk’s wealth doesn’t mean world has to accept his ‘far-right ideology’
"Just because the guy has a lot of money doesn't mean he can disrespect this [country]."
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Friendzone: Collection 1
I don't think that's fully possible. As I get older the more i realize that this shyt doesn't exist
Bluesky flourishes as Brazil bans X - Hypertext
Former X users from Brazil have joined the next best thing in Bluesky and doing so in their millions and millions.
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Bluesky flourishes as Brazil bans X
- Millions of former X users have signed up for Bluesky as the platform was banned in Brazil.
- Over 2 million Brazilian users jumped to the Twitter-like platform in the last few days alone.
- X was banned in Brazil after its owner failed to upheld orders from the Brazilian Supreme Court.
In the past few days alone, social media platform and Twitter-like Bluesky says that it added 2.6 million users with 85 percent of the new users hailing from Brazil. This makes perfect sense since just days ago, Brazil banned X, the former Twitter, from the country after getting into a heated scuffle with owner Elon Musk.
Over two million Brazilian users flocked to Bluesky after the X ban, Engadget reports. For a company that only has around nine million users, the spike is enormous and a major loss to Musk’s platform. The amount of Brazilian users coming to the site was so pronounced that the company wrote a blog post in Portuguese.
“What a week! In the last few days more than 2.6 million users have registered on our platform, and more than 85 percent of those are Brazilian. You are very welcome and we are very happy you are with us,” they wrote.
X has become completely inaccessible in Brazil after a Supreme Court order blocked internet access to the website on the app and on desktop. The courts went as far as to impose huge fines on those found to be using VPNs to access the website, even though the point of VPNs is that they are untraceable, so good luck to whoever has the job of tracing rogue Brazilian X users.
The ban is being led by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has taken X to task over the last few months on the platform allegedly allowing spreaders of fake news and hate speech on the platform to continue influencing Brazilian users.
De Moraes called X to ban these users and despite saying it would, X did not follow through with the request. The final straw saw, allegedly, X employees in Brazil attempt to dodge the Supreme Court Justice only to incur hefty penalties, which then led to the ban of the platform.
Now banned, Brazilian users simply moved on to the next most Twitter-shaped thing, Bluesky, which is steadily growing after hitting a million users in September 2023.
This also not the first time decisions made by Musk, as well as posts by the owner himself, have driven users en masse away from his platform to Bluesky. In August, Bluesky said it saw a 60 percent increase in sign-ups from users in the United Kingdom.
This was during the violent riots in the country, spurred almost entirely by fake news spreading on social media, with UK lawmakers blaming Musk’s increasingly conservative viewpoints and posts for egging on rioters and spreading even more misinformation.
Watch: X lost millions of active users after being banned in Brazil
X has lost an estimated 40 million monthly active users in Brazil after the social network was banned in the country.
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TechCrunch Minute: X lost millions of monthly active users after Brazil ban
Amanda Silberling
9:00 AM PDT • September 4, 2024
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Bluesky has gained 2 million new users over the last week, which can only mean one thing: Something fishy is going on at X. And, indeed, X was banned in Brazil, which means the platform will lose an estimated 40 million monthly active users.
The dispute between X and the Brazilian government started in April, when Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes demanded the removal of seven accounts posting misinformation in support of former president Jair Bolsonaro. Musk, a self-described “free speech absolutist,” did not comply with the takedown requests, even though he’s complied with similar takedown requests from governments in India and Turkey.
Is X’s loss Bluesky’s gain? We’re digging in on today’s TechCrunch Minute.
When, when dear lord will shareholders of all his various enterprises give him the boot?
I guess they will need more pain,
we have had other talented, tech billionaires go loony off the deep end - Howard Hughes that was said if him he was bound for triumph and disaster
I guess they will need more pain,
we have had other talented, tech billionaires go loony off the deep end - Howard Hughes that was said if him he was bound for triumph and disaster
Bluesky grows to 9M+ users | TechCrunch
Bluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9
techcrunch.com
Bluesky grows to 9M+ users
Anthony Ha
1:22 PM PDT • September 7, 2024
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Bluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9 million.
In other words, the social platform’s user base has grown by around 50 percent in the week or so since a Brazilian court banned X (formerly Twitter). The ban sent Bluesky to the top of the free iPhone app charts in Brazil, where it’s currently ranked number two, behind Meta’s competing app Threads.
In addition to sharing the latest user numbers, Bluesky also assured users old and new that video support is “coming soon.”
The platform started as a Twitter-backed initiative to create an open social protocol, but has since become an independent, venture-backed startup and fully opened to the public in February.
In an earlier post about growth, Bluesky said that 85% of its new users are Brazilian. Bringing on so many new users so quickly has led to occasional technical issues.
Musk's X working again in Brazil after finding a way around ban
The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, was banned in the country on 31 August.
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X working again in Brazil as Musk finds way around ban
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Ben Derico and Lily Jamali
BBC News
Some X users in Brazil have said they can once again access the social media website, the BBC has learned.
This comes after the platform, formerly known as Twitter, was banned in the country on 30 August.
The change was made possible after the company, which is owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk, moved their service to servers hosted by Cloudflare, according to ABRINT, the country's leading trade group for Internet Service Providers (ISP).
The change makes it much harder to block applications on phones, the trade group said.
X and Brazil’s telecom agency Anatel have not responded to requests for comment.
ABRINT said on Wednesday that the new system used dynamic internet protocols (IPs) that changed constantly. By contrast, the previous system had relied on specific IPs that could be more easily be blocked.
Basílio Rodriguez Pérez, ABRINT advisor, said those dynamic IPs could also be linked to critical services within Brazil.
"Many of these IPs are shared with other legitimate services, such as banks and large internet platforms, making it impossible to block an IP without affecting other services."
That includes PIX, which millions of Brazilians depend on to make digital payments.
Mr Pérez said he was certain that X made the change on Wednesday to get around the nation’s ban on the platform.
“There is no doubt that this could have happened by chance or unintentionally,” Mr Pérez said.
Some experts say Cloudflare is well-positioned to help Brazil reinforce the ban.
“Actually, I think the ban would be even more effective if Cloudflare really cooperates with the government,” said Felip Autran, a constitutional lawyer in Brasilia, the country’s capital.
“I think they will, since they are such a huge provider for many Brazilian enterprises and also the government.”
Cloudflare declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.
The platform was banned in the country last month after failing to meet a court deadline to appoint a new legal representative in the country.
It marked the most significant development in a feud between Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Mr Musk that began in April, when the judge ordered the suspension of dozens of X accounts for allegedly spreading disinformation.
In his August ruling, Justice Moraes gave companies, including Apple and Google, a five-day deadline to remove X from its app stores and block its use on iOS and Android devices.
He added that individuals or businesses that are found to still be accessing X by using virtual private networks (VPNs) could be fined.
It's unclear what response the country might have to the platform finding a way around the ban.
Brazil is said to be one of the largest markets for Mr Musk's social media network.