X goes offline in Brazil

Source: X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws | X | The Guardian

One of the world’s most popular social networks, X, has gone offline in Brazil – the country with the fifth largest digital population – after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws meant it was blocked by the supreme court.

Millions of Brazilian X users found themselves unable to access the network on Saturday morning as internet providers and mobile phone companies began to enforce the ban.

When the Guardian tried to access the network on its computer and mobile phone, it received a message reading: “Seems like you lost connectivity. We’ll keep retrying.”

Large numbers of Brazilians sought shelter on the rival network, Bluesky, which reported that it had gained 500,000 users in the past two days. “Welcome to Bluesky!” the company posted to its new adherents in Portuguese.​

Works for me. In part because I still see no value in X. Yesterday, I took another peek and though the previous jerks were still blocked, the content was thin. For example, a poll of the percentage of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents on X . . . the ranking:

• Republicans - largest percentage
• Democrats - about half the percentage of Republicans
• Independents - just under the percentage of Democrats

So when Trumps private twitter goes out of business, Twitter/X and be their new home.

Bob Wilson

 

That combined with advertisers not wanting their product sandwiched between offensive "free speech." Here is an example:


Bob Wilson