• Soup@lemmy.cafe
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    Having an account on X supports this shit whether you like it or not it.

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    Local press and lots of people in Brazil criticize judges because, due to flaws on local laws and 80’s redemocratization efforts, they have some perks, privileges and exceptional powers no democratic country would give to them. There are cases ranging from content showing them traveling overseas being not visible on local internet and TV people being given cease-and-desist orders for disagreeing with some judge decision, to people being detained by Federal Police agents for criticizing justice system inside a plane that happens to have a judge among the passengers - not to mention those FBI agents detained at Rio de Janeiro airport for containing a judge’s wife who got unruly in a plane for drinking too much during the fly.

    This time however he asked for it, and our justice system toke the right decisions. Elon Musk should know how ridiculously overpowered our judges are before acting like that.

  • ovovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Brazil didn’t shut down “X”. They did it themselves so X wouldn’t have a Brazilian entity subject to Brazilian court orders. That is why Starlink got caught in the mess.

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    He acts literally like a fucking toddler.

    Perhaps even a toddler in a tantrum.

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      Now that’s just kind of rude toward toddlers. He acts like what he is… a Ketamine addled, narcissistic billionaire, who got lucky in life and thinks he crafted his own destiny all by his own hands.

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        19 hours ago

        Fair enough, fair enough. Toddlers are way more pleasant than him, even when they’ve shat their pants. I apologise to all toddlers.

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        Ketamine is a dissociative which strips away what you know about things, sort of like how a child doesnt know things. So in a way, he’s actually a toddler.

      • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        X/Twitter will soon be making more changes to the block button, with CEO Elon Musk confirming that all public posts will be viewable going forward, even to those who have been blocked

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          I thought most stuff was viewable even without account. Doesn’t seem like a big deal if you can view their post but not interact with it since I would’ve thought others interacting with you was what you wanted to block them from doing anyway.

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            If you’re blocking users left and right that you know spread misinformation, you will still see their posts. No way you can keep track of the usernames in your head, and now you may hear a misinformation or two and assume it to be a fact.

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              I think they are just changing it so the blocked user can still see the blocker’s posts, not the other way around.

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                  Wow, that was not made clear to me. Fortunately I’ve never needed to block anyone specifically from my profiles/content (it’s the other way around, I don’t want to see some other users stuff)

                  But good to know if I had a stalker or something, blocking them doesn’t mean they are blocked from my content, it means they’re blocked from contact.

                  I totally would have assumed blocking someone on various social media platform went both ways in terms of what’s visible to each other.

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          Isn’t that how it works on most platforms though? You can see the account you’ve been blocked by, but can’t interact with them.

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            On reddit it stopped the blocked person from seeing your account and comments.
            Or it used to. Or I’m misremembering.

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          Which is not even a big deal because blocked users could just create a separate account to view posts they’re blocked from anyway.

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      No they aren’t. They are changing how it works, in a way that is mostly immaterial to the user. That is not even close to completely removing.

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        Yep.

        From the sounds of it:

        Before: if you block somebody, they cannot see your stuff.

        After: if you block somebody, they can still visit your profile.

        Usually, when you block someone, they can no longer see your feed; instead, it’s replaced with a message stating that they’re blocked. Now, they can freely browse your feed; they’re just not allowed to interact or comment on your posts.

        https://www.makeuseof.com/x-block-feature-poor-job-blocking-people/

        NGL Elon’s excitement sounds like he was blocked by a lot of people and Daddy Musk will not have closed doors in this household! 😮‍💨

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          To be fair though: While circumventing that was as easy as logging out, the inability to see things while logged in was kinda stupid and gave people a false perception of privacy. In that setting that change is just a case of being honest.

          With the ability to view posts without account largely removed, it’s a bit of a different story, but I have to admit that if it’s public on Xitter, it’s still kinda public, so hiding it still kinda missing the poin.

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          Stalkers and abusers rejoice!

          Seriously, if you are on twitter and have had a relationship with someone like this do not post on your account or they will find you now.

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        No longer being able to hide your public posts from specific users seems hardly immaterial to me.

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    But remember kids, he’s some sort of business and tech genius!

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      Definitely has managed to invest in some incredibly profitable stuff but he also says and does the absolutely stupidest shit imaginable. It’s astounding

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    • Brazil asked Elon to ban 7 fascist accounts spreading disinformation
    • Elon refused pretending it was a free speech issue even though he complied multiple times with similar requests from right wing govts

    Gotta say, this is new information to me. I’ve briefly looked at the stories and the banning of twitter, but I never realized this was entirely because Elon wouldn’t ban accounts as he does for right wing government.

    Elon seems like a kinda shitty guy.

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        I mean it genuinely is because of the “kinda” and “seems”

        “Elon is a shitty guy” is one of the coldest takes out there at this point