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The People's Republic of China has banned Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, etc). Brazil has banned Twitter and the European Union is considering it.
Brazil banned Twitter because Musk thought he could just ignore their laws.
The was hilarious 😄
Well, TikTok refused to abide by the law saying they had to be sold to a US company, which is why they're being banned, so it's technically the same situation, if for different reasons.
Not really, Brazil's demand was to stop spreading seditious material and to engage with their court system.
The American law is to bar them from the market. Reducing that to "follow the law" is a bit disingenuous.
China has banned practically all US social media sites, not just Meta-owned properties. A bunch of other sites are blocked too.
China generally wants major internet services to have servers in China itself, similar to how the EU wants citizens' data to remain in the EU. In order to operate servers located in China, you need to get a license from the Chinese government (ICP license). Large sites that don't do this tend to get banned by the Great Firewall.
Ah well that makes sense then
It really doesn't. Banning Tiktok is banning certain types of speech. Same goes for Twitter/X and Meta. It's like banning a book because it was heavily influenced by an adversary country.
Brazilians and Europeans should be very angry about doing anything that resembles banning speech.
I didn't mean it makes sense as in I agree. I meant, 'oh, a lot of this is going on and it fits in'