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Elon Musk fought the law. The law appears to have won.

X, Musk’s social media platform, has backed down in its fight with the Brazilian judiciary, after complying with court orders that had blocked users in the country from accessing X.

The platform bowed to one of the key demands made by Brazil’s supreme court by appointing a legal representative in the country. It also paid outstanding fines and took down user accounts that the court had ordered to be removed on the basis that they threatened the country’s democracy, the New York Times reported.

However, the battle is not quite over. The supreme court said X had not filed the proper documentation showing that it had appointed Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao as its Brazilian representative. It gave the company five days to present documents validating her appointment.

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[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 120 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Musk is a real Shooter McGavin so I bet he does eat pieces of shit for breakfast.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 month ago

Space Karen.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 month ago

Sing it with me

🎵🎵🎵SCHA-DEN-FREUDE🎵🎵🎵

[–] MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 24 points 1 month ago

Musk has objected to legal orders to remove some posts and accounts in Brazil and Australia, claiming he was a champion of free speech, although he has been less vocal about removing content in countries such as Turkey and India.

What a coincidence he doesn't have a problem following countries with leaders infamous for oppressing minorities.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago
[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You know, Elon is not the one really dealing with this. It's still employees.

Not defending Elon or X here though. They got what they deserved.

I wonder what goes through his employees' heads who are still working there. Do they still even believe in the service??? Do they support their boss?

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

They collect their paychecks and hope they never have to deal with him on any personal basis. It's not too dissimilar from most jobs in that regard, but these were all once companies that employees might have put extra pride/effort into in the past. Doubtful much of that enthusiasm remains under these guy.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Don't overthink it. The remaining employees are just there for the money.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The remaining employees are just there for the money.

You just described "work".

[–] runeko@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

You guys are getting money for working?!

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They are still there for the visa.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's money elsewhere. And I can't imagine working with the stress of being possibly fired on a whim because Elon was feeling like it one day.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I don't live in the States, but as I understand, it's hard to leave your company if your health insurance is tied to that company.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure anyone that's left are the guys that bought into the Elon mystique, so they sort of got what they signed up for.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or they have visas that don't let them quit, or well let's be honest, Musk is not special, doesn't really matter which psychopath you're working for. He's just loud.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly. When it's a choice between a decently-paying IT job for a shitty company in the U.S. or living in poverty in Mumbai, I don't blame any of them for sticking with the job.

[–] eskimofry@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny choice of Mumbai that tickled me... though can't pinpoint why.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't answer that. I wasn't being arbitrary apart from arbitrarily picking a city in India. A large number of H1-B visa holders who work at Twitter come from India.

[–] eskimofry@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Actually you don't need to. Mumbai is so expensive that the phrase "1st world prices for 3rd world conditions" applies.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Ah that's a good point that I didn't think about.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

If not… maybe they’re being compensated accordingly. We can hope.

So if you’re a hiring manager and someone has experience working for him but doesn’t fawn over him, maybe you give them some serious credit and figure they were probably decent at their job plus they can work with anybody.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe he doesn't have to deal with all the menial stuff, but this still ultimately affect him.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The guy's about to be the world's first trillionaire, from what I hear. I don't think he really cares.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

If he doesn't care, he wouldn't have this fight.

[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Elon sowing: "fuck yeah. Fuck you. Go fuck yourselves. I am the best. Memes. 420"

Elon reaping: "..."

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's spelled "Conceição" ☝️🤓

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, but unless less they're from a Portuguese or Spanish language speaking country their keyboard won't have a ç or a ~ and it's a pain in the arse to type that name correctly in a keyboard without those such as an UK keyboard (as I know from experience).

So give them a break.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Whenever I have to type a word similar to that, I normally google it, which finds the correct spelling and then copy-paste it into whatever I am doing.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That really isn't an excuse you know. They are supposed to be professionals.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

But it's like really hard. Like, takes dozens of seconds. Dozens! You cannot expect that level of effort just because it's someone's job!

[–] PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If Elon ever starts building android soldier robots or maybe buys Boston Dynamics, we'll know why.

I still have the space for "robot apocalypse" open on my societal collaspe bingo card. It's not a question of if an unhinged billionaire is going to someday overthrow an entire country, it's a question of when.