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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: 0.202s | source
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joejohnson ◴[31 Aug 24 14:27 UTC] No.41409095[source]▶
Hopefully most people migrate to one of the alternatives not owned by an American oligarch
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adventured ◴[31 Aug 24 14:34 UTC] No.41409158[source]▶
There are no possible alternatives to US based services unless you enjoy extreme restrictions on speech. Europe has become a big no-go zone for speech over the past decade, they're outright hostile and authoritarian about it (with only a few exceptions among European nations). And the direction re liberalism and human rights in Europe is overwhelmingly hostile toward speech. And for South America, Africa and Asia you can entirely forget about it, there are no reliable speech protected locations in any of those.
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1. Aerroon ◴[01 Sep 24 05:38 UTC] No.41414585[source]▶
The US is a ~250 year old continuous democracy. Almost no European states can say the same. After WW1 a lot of democratic European states popped up. Two decades later half of them were autocratic.

I think it's half that our governments don't want to give away control, lest the peasants become uppity. And the other half is that that's just how the dice landed when the laws were first created.