STATEMENT FROM TIKTOK:

In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service. We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170…

— TikTok Policy (@TikTokPolicy) January 19, 2025

This is what I said would happen.

There was no way they were going to actually ban TikTok. I said this at the beginning when Biden first made this move: they were playing chicken with the Chinese, trying to force them into selling. The Chinese are smarter than the US Congress, and they understood that no one in the government is ready to be this obvious about tyrannical government censorship.

It’s so funny they actually thanked Trump.

Reuters:

TikTok said on Sunday it was restoring its service after President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive the app’s access in the U.S. when he returns to power on Monday.

“As a result of president Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.,” the platform said in a message to users.

TikTok also issued an earlier statement after U.S. users reported being able to access the Chinese-owned service’s website while the far more widely used TikTok app itself began coming back online for some users with just a few basic services.

“In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” TikTok said in the earlier statement that also thanked Trump for “providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties (for) providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive.”

…

TikTok stopped working for U.S. users late on Saturday before a law shutting it down on national security grounds took effect on Sunday. U.S. officials had warned that under Chinese parent company ByteDance, there was a risk of Americans’ data being misused.

Trump said he would “extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security.”

“I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture,” he wrote on Truth Social.

I think it’s already beyond that. Sometimes these things are difficult to figure out definitively when you have a foreign company and you don’t know exactly how it’s structured, but what I’ve read is that 60% of ByteDance is owned by “international investors,” many of whom are definitely American. There are three American board members.

The whole “Chinese company” thing comes from the fact that the Chinese government owns a 1% stake, known as the “Golden Share.” This is a Chinese system that allows the government to make decisions about the company, and all of the investors must respect this.

Despite the fact that fat American retards can’t understand that the word “communism” means something different in Chinese, China is a free market economy, and I have an will continue to argue that the lack of regulation in China makes it a much freer market than the US market. It’s a long story and you can find my articles about it, but China puts virtually no regulation on small businesses, really at all, while with big corporations the government owns a stake (usually the 1% “Golden Share”) and regulates them to prevent abuse. The US effectively has the opposite system, where small businesses are completely crushed under tyrannical regulations and big businesses control the government through the campaign finance system.

You can ask yourself which you think is more free. It’s not a hard question for me, but a lot of fat people in America, usually enjoyers of “nigger ball-chucking,” think it is very important that mega-corporations be allowed to operate with impunity. If you bring up the fact that small businesses are crushed under regulation, they just blame Democrats. However, the reason small businesses are crushed is that the big businesses control the government, and want to crush small businesses. This is why Jeff Bezos along with many other heads of big companies lobby for extreme minimum wage laws, along with “health and safety” and “environmental” horseshit, as well as tax schemes that punish small businesses. The single biggest factor in the whole US economy is immigration, which all big businesses push for while it crushes everyone who isn’t extremely wealthy.

But I digress.

Trump is being very kind to the Chinese by setting a standard that is already met, and I think this is probably because even with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the rest of the owners of social media companies coming out and saying they’re for free speech, he doesn’t really trust them and therefore wants TikTok to be around to counterbalance these American censorship companies.

But again, it can’t be banned. It would just not be feasible. Chuck Schumer was out there with Trump trying to stop the ban, because he knew Trump would blame the Democrats and it would just look completely ridiculous for the US government to ban what is by several metrics the most popular app in the country.

The fact that people were migrating to Rednote and seeing that America is a complete shithole didn’t help things either.

See: With TikTok Ban Impending, US Users are Flooding Chinese App Rednote

The trend towards free speech is real. It’s just a matter of how far it is going to go.

I’m still banned from Twitter, as you know. I may attempt to join Zuckerberg’s “Threads” at some point in the future.

Initially, I was thinking about trying to make a new Twitter account after the inauguration, but after the Laura Loomer thing and then Asmongold, it is clearly just a waste of time.

But “Threads” could be interesting?

It’s at least a test. I’m the single most banned person in all of human history, so it would be interesting to test.

Pavel Durov

Now that people are aware of Chinese apps, they are going to start migrating off of these spying and censorship apps controlled by the West.

Until all the Chinese apps get banned.

RT:

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has pledged to strengthen moderation efforts on his social media platform, speaking before a French court on Friday, according to Franceinfo.

The Russian tech mogul, who also holds citizenship in France, the UAE, and St. Kitts and Nevis, was arrested in Paris in August 2024. The French authorities charged him with over a dozen offenses related to illegal content on Telegram, including complicity in the distribution of child pornography and enabling drug trafficking, among other allegations.

Durov was eventually released on bail of €5 million ($5.15 million), but was prohibited from leaving France and required to report to local police twice a week.

During Friday’s hearing, Durov told the court that Telegram is committed to “improving its moderation procedures,” Franceinfo reported. He explained that the platform deletes “between 15 and 20 million user accounts for breaking the law” each month and argued that Telegram is not alone in facing these challenges.

…

When the judges pointed out that many of these moderation initiatives were launched after his arrest in August, Durov said that only at that point was he made “aware of the seriousness of all these facts.”

Durov further stated that Telegram has increased cooperation with the authorities worldwide to combat illegal activity. Over the past six months, the platform has provided user data from approximately 10,000 accounts to law enforcement agencies globally.

See: Following CEO’s Arrest in France, Telegram Censor Speech, Hand Over Data

Durov didn’t want to do this. They kidnapped him and forced him to do it.

Nonetheless, the company is going to be useless.

The reason it was big in the first place is that they allowed so much more freedom than Twitter or Facebook.

If they’re going to censor just as much, there is no reason to use the app.

Previously: Zuckerberg has a Golden Opportunity to Rebrand His Twitter Clone as “The Free Speech Alternative to Twitter”

There could only be a showdown with Facebook if the US government allowed Europe to have such a showdown. Europe does not have independent policies, all of them are dictated to them by the United States. Obviously, they have stricter speech rules than the US (at least technically), but those rules are all driven by the US desire to shut down speech globally.

Just look at the way the Germans have gone along with supporting Ukraine terrorism against their country, gone along with collapsing their own industrial sector, because the US tells them to do that. It’s ridiculous and humiliating.

However, US organs at the State Department probably do not agree with Donald Trump easing the restrictions on speech rules in America, and they will likely use European bodies to attack those changes.

The Guardian:

Sweeping changes to the policing of Meta’s social media platforms have set the tech company on a collision course with legislators in the UK and the European Union, experts and political figures have said.

Lawmakers in Brussels and London criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to scrap factcheckers in the US for Facebook, Instagram and Threads, with one labelling it “quite frightening”.

The changes to Meta’s global policies on hateful content now include allowing users to call transgender people “it”, with the guidelines stating: “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”

Chi Onwurah, the Labour MP and chair of the science and technology committee for the House of Commons, which is investigating how online disinformation fuelled last summer’s riots, said Zuckerberg’s decision to replace professional factcheckers with users policing the accuracy of posts was “concerning” and “quite frightening”.

“To hear that Meta is removing all its factcheckers [in the US] is concerning … people have a right to be protected from the harmful effects of misinformation,” she said. “The fact that Zuckerberg said he’s following the example of X must raise concerns when we compare how X is a platform for misinformation to a greater extent than Facebook has been.”

Chi Onwurah is frightened.

She’s one of the top British people, you know.

People better take her emotions seriously.

Meta’s move, which Zuckerberg made clear was a response to the incoming Donald Trump presidency, also prompted predictions that a major challenge is coming from the Trump administration against laws such as the Online Safety Act.

The former UK technology minister, Damian Collins, said such a challenge will “most likely be made through trade negotiations where pressure will be brought against the UK to accept American standards for digital regulation”.

…

A Meta whistleblower told the Guardian: “I am extremely concerned about what this means for teenagers.”

Teenagers are useless anyway.

Who cares what happens to them?

Arturo Béjar, a former senior engineer whose responsibilities at Meta included child safety measures, said: “They will be increasingly exposed to all the content categories that they need to be protected against.”

Harmful content, including violent or pornographic material, could reach young users more easily, Bejar said, citing Zuckerberg’s statement that tackling “lower severity” transgressions will now rely on users flagging content before Meta acts on it.

…

Zuckerberg has said his policy of ditching factcheckers applies only in the US for now, but his broadside against Europe has raised concerns that he is planning to roll out the approach in Europe.

It’s very expensive for these companies to do all of this censorship, which I think is why they’re all excited to stop doing it. With Twitter, it was something like 75% of employees at the company were working in the censorship department.

It’s all ridiculous, and hopefully we’re getting to the point where we can ask about personal responsibility, and start asking if it is possible for the government to view people as adults who are capable of making their own decisions.

Obviously, the idea that the government would view its citizens as adults capable of making decisions is far outside of established norms in the current year, with the government having moved to treat everyone like a little baby. Clearly, everyone in the government prefers to have strict policies that allow them to control what people think and do.

Who decides the nature of ultimate reality?

Well, the government, obviously.

And if you don’t agree with them, you will pay the ultimate price.

The Guardian:

Spain’s leftwing government has announced a bill extending a requirement to publish corrections to posts by digital platforms and social media influencers in an attempt to fight disinformation.

…

The draft law replaces legislation from 1984 and targets internet users who have more than 100,000 followers on a single platform or 200,000 across several, the justice ministry said in a statement.

These outlets and the platforms that host them must have a mechanism to facilitate citizens’ right to ask that false or inaccurate information that harms them be corrected publicly, the ministry said.

The correction request will no longer have to be addressed to the outlet’s director because confirming their identity is difficult for many “pseudo media”, justice minister Félix Bolaños told a press conference.

“We’re making life more difficult for those who dedicate themselves to lies and spreading fake news every day, and, therefore, it is good news for democracy,” Bolaños added.

It’s not good news for democracy. Or maybe it is. I don’t actually know what that word means.

I do know that you can’t have a free society if you don’t trust the people to be able to decide what their own beliefs are.

See: If Fake News is a Problem for Democracy, Then Democracy is a Problem

Hillary Clinton is correct. They would lose total control. https://t.co/9YrzCjbgXJ

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) October 6, 2024

The debate between James Bowman and that other freak Tim Walz was not particularly interesting in any way, other than the part where the Walz just casually said that the government should shut down “hate speech” and “disinformation” on the internet.

Do you remember what happened to me, with that endless nonsense about how I didn’t have any free speech rights because every “private company” on earth decided that they wanted to silence me because I made a fat joke about a dead woman?

Even while the Biden Administration was ordering social media companies to censor content, they never admitted it or tried to say it was good. The new plan is that Democrats are just going to openly demand the government have a direct ability to censor the internet.

“Oh, it’s actually private companies that are doing this” is out!

New York Post:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday that social media companies must moderate content on their platforms or else “we lose total control.”

Clinton told CNN host Michael Smerconish that while there have been some steps taken at the state level to regulate social media, she wants to see more done by the federal government to moderate content.

…

Clinton said she believes the issue should be “at the top of every legislative political agenda” and called for the repealing of Section 230 of the Communications Act, which protects online platforms from being held liable for third-party content, such as user content on social media. This immunity applies to the content itself and the removal of content in certain circumstances.

“We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave, you know, platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted,” Clinton said.

“But we now know that that was an overly simple view, that if the platforms, whether it’s Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control,” she continued. “And it’s not just the social and psychological affects, it’s real life.”

It’s funny that conservatives were claiming that removing Section 230 would help freedom of speech. Neither argument actually means anything, and exactly 1 year ago today, Republicans dropped all pretense of caring about freedom of speech anyway, and began calling for massive internet censorship right along with the Democrats.

When the government is demanding people be forced to surrender their freedom of speech, what are they offering in return? Trannies and endless war for Jews?

Hahahahaha…running scared.

“The World Economic Forum…Social Media must not be allowed to destroy democracy…” EU President, Ursula Von Der LIAR pic.twitter.com/0SdKXmqhHg

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) October 6, 2024

Hitler speech, translated by AI, is going viral on TikTok, among younger users of all racial backgrounds.

Al-generated audio clips of Hitler giving speeches in English is racking up millions of views despite TikTok’s attempt to ban them.

Posts using these clips have been liked… pic.twitter.com/CyKljZ0vQ2

— Klaus Arminius (@Klaus_Arminius) September 24, 2024

Hitler is back in a big way.

He said this would happen, you know.

He said it and like everything else he said, he was right.

The Jews over at the New York Post are not thrilled about his triumphant return:

Misguided TikTokers are using AI to translate Adolf Hitler’s speeches into English – and racking up millions of clicks on the under-fire platform, according to a watchdog media report.

Users have pushed and even celebrated the Nazi leader’s remarks in what is an apparent violation of TikTok’s guidelines that ban “promoting (including any praise, celebration, or sharing of manifesto) or providing material support to … individuals who cause serial or mass violence, or promote hateful ideologies.”

One disturbing clip garnered more than 1 million views before it was squashed, Media Matters reported last week.

The video is of Hitler giving a speech with a slow instrumental beat that suggests the ruthless killer didn’t want to spark a conflict during World War II, that he tried to save the lives of women and children and waited to attack until he had no choice, according to the watchdog report.

No historians argue that Hitler purposefully started World War II. That is a cartoon narrative, which doesn’t even make sense.

Why would you go to war with “the world”?

The caption attached to the clip states, “Just listen.”

Media Matters detailed other instances where Nazi-themed videos proliferated throughout the social media app.

Another video — that was also eventually pulled — showed cliffs by the water as another translated speech was played.

It reportedly racked up 270,000 views and another 22,700 likes with some comments including “AH was a good and kind man” and “this changed my views on him.”

An account with more than 20,000 followers and nearly 4 million views of 12 videos with Hitler speeches, an outline of Hitler and text that states, “Growing up is realizing Who the villain Really was.”

A TikTok spokesperson said in a statement to The Post late Tuesday that the social media app already “removed almost all of the videos identified in the Media Matters report for violating our community guidelines.”

Hitler was an incel art student with an emo haircut who became a leader because he felt he had no other choice. He’s a very relatable figure. And there’s a reason why none of the clips of him on the History Channel ever have subtitles: because if you listen to what he’s saying, you can’t possibly believe he was an unreasonable man.

Now is the time for Hitler to return in a big way.

We need him now more than ever.

Hitler’s 1939 speech translated by Al is going viral on TikTok among young people.

Two AI-translated clips of the 1939 Reichstag speech have racked up millions of views on TikTok.

ADL and hate groups demand TikTok to take stricter measures to combat ‘glorification of Hitler’. pic.twitter.com/ivG1PEBRSz

— Klaus Arminius (@Klaus_Arminius) September 12, 2024

🚨TELEGRAM TO SHARE PHONE NUMBERS AND IP ADDRESSES OF ‘BAD ACTORS’ WITH AUTHORITIES

Telegram has updated its terms of service to share the phone numbers and IP addresses of users violating its rules with authorities, founder Pavel Durov announced.

Previously, data was only… pic.twitter.com/EO43uSFYLs

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 23, 2024

When they come and arrest you because you’re not censoring enough, what are you supposed to do?

The only thing you can do is censor more.

Free speech is completely impossible in a democracy, because the government won’t allow private actors to provide the public with free speech platforms.

The Guardian:

Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said Monday that the messaging platform had removed more “problematic content” and would take a more proactive approach to complying with government requests. The announcement comes weeks after his arrest in France on charges of failing to act against criminals using the app.

Telegram’s search feature “has been abused by people who violated our terms of service to sell illegal goods”, Durov told the 13 million subscribers of his personal messaging channel.

“Over the past few weeks” staff had combed through Telegram using artificial intelligence to ensure “all the problematic content we identified in Search is no longer accessible”, he said.

Durov added that the platform had updated its terms of service and privacy policy to make clear that it would share infringers’ details with authorities – including internet IP addresses and phone numbers – “in response to valid legal requests”.

This was obviously organized by “Big Daddy Anus” AKA “Uncle Slam Your Anus” AKA “Jewmerica.”

There’s no way the French could do this without US fedgov permission. French aren’t allowed to piss in the gym shower without America’s permission.

The US wanted Telegram censored, but they do this ultra-gay thing where they pretend they don’t arrest people for speech, so they just asked one of their bitch-boy countries to do it for them.

Democracy is a travesty of justice.

People deserve to have freedom, and it is clearly impossible to have freedom while living in democracy.

Democracy is the worst form of oppression in history, largely because they do all these stupid tricks to pretend like they’re not oppressing people, and they’ve made the public so fat and retarded that they believe the tricks.

Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes, Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists

🔗: https://t.co/LinF7suA5k pic.twitter.com/xKOrkqQn3b

— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) September 9, 2024

A Boise, ID man and Elk Grove, CA woman, leaders of the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational terrorist group, were charged with soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists: https://t.co/qlKegYXYh5 pic.twitter.com/0YteNuxYtO

— FBI Salt Lake City (@FBISaltLakeCity) September 9, 2024

Previously:

• France: Government Kidnaps Telegram CEO, Demands Mass Censorship
• France Charges Telegram CEO, Alleging He is “Allowing Criminal Activity” on Messaging App
• Telegram CEO Announces “Improvements” to Moderation, Removal of Features Used for Illegal Activity

Oh, hey – this is interesting!

The US is mad at Telegram!

After “The French” arrested the CEO!

What a coincidence that “The French” are prosecuting the CEO of Telegram at the same time the Americans are calling for Telegram to be shut down because of free speech!

(For anyone who isn’t following: the US told the French to arrest Durov. This is very obvious. The US government can just order any European country to do things. The Europeans are just little puppies for Uncle Sam. The US passed a law to ban TikTok because it doesn’t have enough censorship, so it was obvious they were going to move to stop Telegram as well.)

Reuters:

U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Monday against two alleged leaders of a white supremacist gang, saying they used the Telegram social media site to solicit attacks on Black, Jewish, LGBTQ people and immigrants aiming to incite a race war.

The group, dubbed “The Terrorgram Collective”, used the site to celebrate white supremacist attacks around the world and solicit racially motivated violence, prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed in federal court in Sacramento, California.

Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, each face 15 criminal counts, including soliciting hate crimes and conspiring to provide material support to terrorism. The two were in custody, officials said; it was not immediately clear if they had lawyers.

The most serious charges carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

The group’s targets also included U.S. government officials and critical infrastructure sites, with an overall goal of causing societal collapse in the United States, U.S. Justice Department officials said during an online news conference.

The only important story here is the Telegram angle.

“Terrorgram” is just yet another fake group started by feds.

Every right-wing group in America is started by the feds. There aren’t actually any exceptions.

holy shit – over a year after reports from @HuffPost & @LCRWnews unmasked a leader of the Terrorgram Collective as Dallas Humber, the DOJ has announced she’s been arrested on 15 counts, including for soliciting hate crimes / the murder of federal officials https://t.co/YuJXVrmNja https://t.co/XDKofvsZyb pic.twitter.com/J2ML3HOaWg

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) September 9, 2024

Anglin used to support Nick Fuentes and his “America First” group, but Fuentes recently came out as working with federal informant Chuck Johnson (which he did after becoming friends with Richard Spencer, who also works with Johnson).

All of these right-wing movements are just total fed ops.

They create these movements so that normal people won’t create them. If normal people create them, they take them over. There is nothing real about any of it, ever.

I’m still trying to understand what happened in France. But we hear the concerns. I made it my personal goal to prevent abusers of Telegram’s platform from interfering with the future of our 950+ million users.

My full post below. https://t.co/cDvRSodjst

— Pavel Durov (@durov) September 5, 2024

JUST IN: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov posts statement regarding last months arrest in France: pic.twitter.com/qEPYU5hnFF

— wallstreetbets (@wallstreetbets) September 5, 2024

The Telegram guy was released on bail, but he’s not allowed to leave France.

France is a democracy, and that means they need to have total control of information so they can control people’s thoughts. Our Democracy simply cannot work if the government does not have the ability to control everyone’s thoughts. The whole thing will just fall apart.

They want more censorship. Telegram is already far from being a “free” platform, but it needs to really get shut down hard in order to protect the sanctity of the most sacred thing ever: democracy.

This arrest is a warning to everyone: the government will not only charge your company with crimes, they will arrest you personally, and destroy you. You must censor everything, or democracy will crush you like an insect.

The Guardian:

The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, under investigation in France, has said that French authorities should have approached his company with their complaints rather than detaining him, calling the arrest “misguided”.

Durov, writing on his Telegram channel early on Friday in his first public comments since his detention last month, denied any suggestion the app was an “anarchic paradise”.

The Russian-born multi-billionaire said the investigation into the app was surprising in that French authorities had access to a “hot line” he had helped set up and they could have contacted Telegram’s EU representative at any time.

“If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself,” he wrote.

“Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach.”

Durov was on the Tucker Carlson show a few weeks ago, and he talked about how every time he goes to the US, he is swarmed by the FBI. He said last time he brought his programmer, and the FBI tried to recruit the programmer behind his back.

🚨 PAVEL DUROV: THE U.S. WANTED TO CONTROL TELEGRAM BETTER

“We get too much attention from the FBI and other security agencies whenever we come to the U.S.

The last time I was in the U.S., I brought an engineer who works for Telegram.

There was an attempt by cybersecurity… pic.twitter.com/DUpz4j5TpX

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 24, 2024

Probably, the France arrest is on the orders of the US.

The US doesn’t like to do things like arrest people for free speech, because they have this whole gay branding that they somehow support free speech. This is complete bullshit, and you can ask Andrew Anglin about that one.

But all of these European countries are the little bitch errand boys of Uncle Sam, so they will just arrest whoever the State Department tells them to arrest.

It looks like Durov is going to make a deal, and then there will be a lot more censorship on Telegram. I don’t know what other possible outcome there could be here.

Alexandre de Moraes is an evil dictator cosplaying as a judge. https://t.co/ZIV8KbDCmk

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 30, 2024

They’re shutting down the #1 source of truth in Brazil https://t.co/RasqcQ3ySM

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 30, 2024

The oppressive regime in Brazil is so afraid of the people learning the truth that they will bankrupt anyone who tries https://t.co/VgYPRJMXJv

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 30, 2024

Everyone should block Twitter.

This guy Musk will come into your country and say he has a “free platform” and then he will censor all of you own people and promote CIA accounts.

You can’t have a free country when Musk is free to roam the internet. He will get everyone on his platform, then he will censor anyone defending the country and promote CIA.

The Guardian:

The Brazilian supreme court has ordered that X be suspended in the country after the social media platform failed to meet a deadline to appoint a legal representative in the country.

Late on Friday afternoon, Justice Alexandre de Moraes – who has been engaged in a dispute with X’s owner, Elon Musk, since April – ordered the “immediate, complete and total suspension of X’s operations” in the country, “until all court orders … are complied with, fines are duly paid, and a new legal representative for the company is appointed in the country”.

He gave Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency 24 hours to enforce the decision. Once notified, the agency must pass the order on to the more than 20,000 broadband internet providers in the country, each of which must block X.

That’s a lot of ISPs!

If Brazilian ISPs were papercuts, they would be enough to kill a grown man!

In an interview with the TV channel Globonews, the agency’s president, Carlos Manuel Baigorri, said the order had already been passed on to internet providers.

…

Justice Moraes also summoned Apple and Google to “implement technological barriers to prevent the use of the X app by users of the iOS and Android systems” and to block the use of VPN applications.

The decision imposes a daily fine of R$50,000 (£6,800) on individuals and companies that attempt to continue using X via VPN.

The deadline given to X to appoint a new legal representative in the country expired at 8.07pm local time on Thursday (0.07am BST on Friday). An hour later, Elon Musk’s social network announced that it would not comply.

The dispute began in April, when Moraes ordered the suspension of dozens of accounts for allegedly spreading disinformation – a request Musk has denounced as censorship.

Well, the details of each Musking are unique.

But Elon will promote disinformation from the CIA. But the problem is, he will ban or bury anyone who is pushing back against it.

It’s straight out of the “X” playbook!

Moraes’ April order to X to block some accounts stemmed from an investigation into “digital militias” who backed former president Jair Bolsonaro’s attempts to stay in power after his 2022 election defeat. After Musk refused to comply, the judge included him in his investigation.

It was also revealed on Thursday that on 18 August – a day after Musk announced the end of X’s operations in Brazil – Moraes blocked the local bank accounts for Musk’s satellite and internet provider Starlink. The aim was to enforce fines imposed on X – as of this Friday, R$18.3m (£2.5m) – for refusing to remove profiles accused of promoting anti-democratic acts and false news.

Look, I understand that this is a leftist demanding censorship of a right-winger.

But riddle me this, friendo:

Which one is calling for an end to the war in the Ukraine? 

And which one supports Israel? 

Which one is CIA?

🇺🇸🇧🇷U.S: WE ARE MONITORING 𝕏 BRAZIL ESCALATION

“The US Embassy is monitoring the situation between the Supreme Court and the X platform.

We emphasize that freedom of expression is a fundamental pillar in a healthy democracy.”

Source: @SamPancherpic.twitter.com/zVkSSOTCVC

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 30, 2024