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

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420 points rvz | 1 comments | 31 Aug 24 13:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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toomuchtodo ◴[31 Aug 24 22:51 UTC] No.41412640[source]▶
“Masterful gambit, sir.”

(X is facing a deep decline in revenue, cutting its valuation from $44B to ~$12B [Musk’s stake is worth ~$7B], and Musk makes a choice that drives millions of users to an alternate site: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitters-revenue-collapses-84...)

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pqdbr ◴[31 Aug 24 23:09 UTC] No.41412734[source]▶
More power to him. He’s making the hard choices and paying a steep price for actually standing for free speech like no other big tech does.
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1. nova22033 ◴[01 Sep 24 02:00 UTC] No.41413607[source]▶
ah..yes..he's making the hard choices

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/modi-twitter-bbc-m...

“It is not possible for me to fix every aspect of Twitter worldwide overnight, while still running Tesla and SpaceX, among other things,” he added, referring to the multiple companies where he is CEO.