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

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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 22:58 UTC] No.41421086[source]▶
I’m reading some more and the election interference happened under Jack Dorsey‘s Twitter not Elon Musk’s X. The Twitter employees involved were fired in the purge after Musk bought and assumed control of the website.