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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: 0.204s | 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. chasing ◴[01 Sep 24 15:55 UTC] No.41417917[source]▶
Hahahaha! He’s absolutely not standing for free speech and anyone still thinking that needs to spend a few minutes actually poking around Twitter (and maybe a few minutes deconstructing what “freedom of speech” actually means). It’s a playground to promote speech he likes. And he’s a right-wing rich guy bigot whose primary mode of “argument” is either trolling or attempting to financially destroy people he disagrees with.

Concerning.