The banning of X/Twitter in Brazil and the authoritarian drive of the capitalist state

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/07/wtll-s07.html

created by JamesParkes on 07/09/2024 at 23:15 UTC

22 upvotes, 8 top-level comments (showing 8)

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Comment by HSMBBA at 08/09/2024 at 07:19 UTC

30 upvotes, 1 direct replies

And yet YouTube, Facebook, X, Snapchat, Signal, Telegram, Instagram, Wikipedia, foreign countries’ press are all banned in China, a country that is so called “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”

Please find a better source than a generally authoritarian ideological website that is pushing this hypocritical rubbish.

Comment by etiolatezed at 08/09/2024 at 15:26 UTC

12 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Not a trustworthy site

Comment by DGC_David at 08/09/2024 at 16:04 UTC

8 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Dude I don't get, if Elon pays the fine he's back in... Like idk why everyone sees this as a freedom of speech issue, it's not like they can't login to Threads, YouTube, Wikipedia, Google, and pretty much anything else.

Twitter and X people are so brain broke on some nonsense censorship war.

Comment by turbo_dude at 09/09/2024 at 09:55 UTC

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Leon Musk is quite happy to “adjust content” in authoritarian states.

You don’t seem to have a problem with that OP.

Comment by DennDee at 01/10/2024 at 13:11 UTC

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I'm amazed by the bullshit people take from billionaires and their private businessess that impact everyone's lives without any public responsibility.

The companies of these billionaires often treat their employees like shit, don`t pay any taxes or care about damage they incur and generally tend towards authoritarianism because democracies just get in their way to further colonize the globe and space.

You know how they see the folk that follows them and gets inspiration from them? Either peasants for cheap labor or resources to extract. Fuck them.

Comment by UntoTheBreach95 at 08/09/2024 at 15:53 UTC

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Lula Da Silva, the actual president of Brazil is a leftist

Dudes. I know is hard to understand as an european or American how politics work in other countries.

In latam the difference between the left and right is that the first don't like free market and the second tolerates it. Besides that both are similar a$ĥoʻles.

IMO the left is more republican-ish here. Protectionism, nationalism, very culturally conservative for a left party (well truly the right is a bit more but still far away from being liberal), the type of people who vote for them, and i can go on am on. But this last paragraph is just what I think I see.

Comment by sophistibaited at 12/09/2024 at 01:19 UTC

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You all have lost the plot.

Official reminder to you all that this sub has ZERO affiliation with ACTUAL WL staff.