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Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

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420 points rvz | 2 comments | 31 Aug 24 13:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source
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dont_forget_me ◴[31 Aug 24 14:46 UTC] No.41409260[source]▶
It saddens me the Brasil banned X because of racism, anti-semitism and hate-speech. But X is still not banned in the west.

At some point we have to come to this realization in the west that absolutism is never the answer. Free speech is good upto certain extent, the way it was at Twitter before the rich and powerful took over. Moreover, it is content moderation and it doesn't have anything to do with free speech.

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1. chucke1992 ◴[31 Aug 24 17:09 UTC] No.41410248[source]▶
> Free speech is good upto certain extent

Until you own speech is banned right? We are the "good ones" after all.

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2. croes ◴[01 Sep 24 00:25 UTC] No.41413108[source]▶
Until your government is overthrown by the military in a coup d'état.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_atta...