Posted by EditorDavid from the X-ing-out dept.
X.com “says it’s ending business operations in Brazil effective immediately,” reports Engadget, “but the service will remain available to users in the country.” The company says Alexandre de Moraes, the president of the Superior Electoral Court and a justice of the Supreme Federal Court, threatened one of X’s legal representatives with arrest if it did not “comply with his censorship orders.” According to Reuters, de Moreas demanded that X remove certain content from its platform.
Rather than comply, X has opted to end its local operations “to protect the safety of our staff.”
According to X, de Moraes made the threat in a “secret order,” which it shared publicly. X owner Elon Musk claimed that the demand “would require us to break (in secret) Brazilian, Argentinian, American and international law.”
“Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry” – An error message printed by DEC’s RSTS operating system for the PDP-11
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