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[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 91 points 3 months ago

Aw. Do us next please.

Kind regards,

Europe

[-] sxan@midwest.social 36 points 3 months ago

USA next. If we can ban TikTok, we can do Twitter too!

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Ugh, TikTok isn't banned in the US...

[-] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

No, but they have been trying to ban it.

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Until they do, your statement doesn't make sense lol

[-] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As someone who hates corporate social media (and TikTok especially), I can’t figure out if banning TikTok is a legit security issue or racist. I’d love to see it go, but I can’t seem to form an opinion on the matter despite reading up on it several times.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Hopefully it is first brick in the wall, after Brazil finds it did not collapse due to absence of twitter

[-] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Unless Twitter geoblocks Brazil or bans all users who set their country to Brazil it will not be absent there. As far as I can tell Twitter doesn’t use country specific tlds or subdomains, so nothing will materially change for Brazilian users.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

As someone who has some social media including Twitter geoblocked... No, this is not enough to make a social media die down in a region lol

[-] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

This is true. I guess I should have said “Unless twitter geoblocks or bans Brazilian users, they’re not even making an attempt to be absent there”.

[-] vistencluse@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

For everyone that interpreted this as saying that X will be banned here: It won't. X will still work. But all X staff in Brazil were laid off.

[-] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 21 points 3 months ago

...and nothing of value was lost

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Except the jobs of all those Brazilian employees

[-] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago

You're right, it was a bit too off the cuff of a remark. Though I can't imagine they've had fun there since the Muppet took over. Can you imagine being the poor bastard who had to tell Phony Stark about this whole thing? They probably had to remind him that their office existed only to have him sack everyone.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Congrats, Brazil!!

[-] prime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

Brazil is based for once

[-] BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

How do we get some of them Brazilian content orders here in the states?

[-] miau@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

Does this harm twitter in any way?

I mean, if they are still reachable and usable in Brazil, they can still serve ads to those users and so it seems their business doesnt change much?

But there must have been some advantage for twitter in having an office there, otherwise they wouldnt have opened it in the first place.

[-] Xatolos@reddthat.com 15 points 3 months ago

They can't sell Brazilian ads to Brazilians, as that needs an office/presence in Brazil. This hurts the value of ads that Xitter can charge when dealing with users in Brazil (Brazil is the largest economy in South America, and with Xitter already having ad money problems, it isn't a good thing for them.)

So while they could still show ads to Brazilians, the fact is it would be for companies with offices outside Brazil, something not many would care about.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Good. Let’s hope the public moves to mastodon.

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

They'll move to Threads or Bluesky long before they even think of saying the word mastodon

[-] miau@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

That makes sense. Thanks a lot for the explanation!

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

goodbye removed!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Lucky Brazil!

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