Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Josquius]

The success of that  Harry Potter game and the more recent persona games show there's a big market for games with a school setting.
Bully 2.
NOW.

(did we ever get a solid answer on the bully 1 languish reference? )

[Jacob]

I recall putting in some languish references, but not what they were...

[Syt]

[The Brain]

Picardo?

[Syt]

Robert.

[The Brain]

Ah!

[Syt]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazilian-court-suspend-x-brazil-if-musk-does-not-name-new-country-2024-08-28/

Brazil's top court threatens to suspend X by Thursday night

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday ordered billionaire Elon Musk to name a legal representative for his messaging platform X in Brazil within 24 hours or face the site's suspension in the country.

Earlier this month, X announced it would close its operations and fire its staff in Brazil due to what it called "censorship orders" from the judge, Alexandre de Moraes. Its service would remain available for users in Brazil, it said.

X, at the time, claimed Moraes secretly threatened one of the company's legal representatives in Brazil with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform.

In Wednesday's ruling, Moraes says that under the country's law regulating internet issues, companies that do not respect Brazilian legislation or the confidentiality of private information could have their activities temporarily suspended.

The Supreme Court posted a screenshot of Wednesday's court decision on its X account, tagging Musk's and X's Global Government Affairs accounts.

Hours after the judge's decision, Musk said on X that Moraes "has repeatedly broken the laws he has sworn to uphold".

Earlier this year, Moraes ordered X to block certain accounts implicated on investigations of so-called "digital militias" that have been accused of spreading fake news and hate messages during the government of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro.

After Musk challenged that decision and said he would reactivate accounts on X that the judge had ordered blocked, Moraes opened an inquiry into the billionaire in early April.

X representatives eventually reversed course and told the Supreme Court that the social media giant would obey the legal rulings. In April, however, Moraes asked X to explain why it allegedly had not fully complied with his decisions.

In response, lawyers representing X in Brazil told the Supreme Court that "operational faults" had allowed users who were ordered blocked to stay active on the social media platform.

Musk has called the Moraes' decisions regarding X "unconstitutional".

Topics such as "Twitter will end", "Elon Musk" and "Alexandre de Moraes" were trending on X in Brazil on Thursday, with hundreds of thousands of posts. Public reaction included mostly "memes" making light of the situation.

Among more serious reactions, some X users shared harsh criticism over Moraes' decisions, saying he was harming freedom of speech in Brazil. On the other hand, other users sided with Moraes, saying Musk should not be above Brazilian law.

X, formerly Twitter, is widely used in Brazil, and is an important means of communication for politicians especially.

[crazy canuck]

"Musk said on X that Moraes "has repeatedly broken the laws he has sworn to uphold"."

Musk may have lost sight of the fact that it is the court that gets to decide who has broken the law.

[Tamas]

"Musk said on X that Moraes "has repeatedly broken the laws he has sworn to uphold"."

Musk may have lost sight of the fact that it is the court that gets to decide who has broken the law.

That is certainly not the kind of world he and his kind are pushing for.

[Syt]

He's a billionaire. Laws are what happens to other people.

[Jacob]

I hope Musk meets a miserable fate that shuts him up, and soon.

What a cretin.

[Sophie Scholl]

I hope Musk meets a miserable fate that shuts him up, and soon.

What a cretin.

Seriously. Ugh. I wonder if we'll ever have a social media hub like Twitter again post-Elon. The damage he did to news and the easy and free exchange of ideas and news is so devastating. 

[Jacob]

So looks like things are going down in Brazil - Twitter being blocked by ISPs and Starlink's accounts frozen.

[garbon]

I hope Musk meets a miserable fate that shuts him up, and soon.

What a cretin.

Seriously. Ugh. I wonder if we'll ever have a social media hub like Twitter again post-Elon. The damage he did to news and the easy and free exchange of ideas and news is so devastating. 

I feel like he only accelerated the rot. Just like once upon a time, we had lots of wide eyed optimise about facebook. I remember when people still had their class schedules on their facebook pages without thinking how that could facilitate stalking.

[Admiral Yi]

I don't see how what he has done can be characterized as damage to easy and free exchange of ideas.