not sure if you get it, but the point is the inconsistency. if its a "right wing" government he will do whatever they want. If its what he perceives as a "left wing" government he will fight them tooth and nail.
If he actually gave a single shit about free speech he would have fought all of these governments.
I get it. But many people seem to be okay with Brazilian courts banning the access to Twitter for the whole country, as if it was not a MAJOR act of governmental censorship.
Of course, we can point at Musk's hypocrisy based on past behaviours. But please don't normalize governments censoring social networks just because it hurts your least favourite person.
Musk did well not complying with the initial censoring, and he is right when he complains about the block. He has been wrong in the past facilitating censorship, and he has to answer for that. But he is right now.
The Supreme Court required X to have a Brazilian legal representative so that someone could face repercussion because of the lack of compliance to the initial censorship requests.
The Turkish Court also required X to name a legal representative last year because of the same reason.
So yeah. Musk did wrong in the past in the case of Turkey. And he did it right in this case. That's the point. And again we can blame him for failing in the past but please don't justify or minimize the wrongdoing of Brazil SC in this case.
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u/mycurrentthrowaway1 Sep 02 '24
Perfectly happy to suppress modi and erdogan critics though