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slowhadoken ◴[01 Sep 24 03:16 UTC] No.41413974[source]▶

I’m glad I don’t live in Brazil. Why ban X? It makes no sense.

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viburnum ◴[01 Sep 24 04:40 UTC] No.41414346[source]▶

People used it to organize an attempted coup against a democratically elected government and twitter is not cooperating with the investigation.

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1. slowhadoken ◴[01 Sep 24 05:03 UTC] No.41414434[source]▶

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I’m pretty sure that’s the CIA’s job. Isn’t it because Brazil doesn’t have free speech so they have absurd “hate speech” laws similar to the ones that are backfiring in Scotland right now?

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2. viburnum ◴[01 Sep 24 05:57 UTC] No.41414658[source]▶

>>41414434 (TP) #

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brazilian_Congress_attack

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