The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said he hopes the crisis surrounding the social network X in Brazil might teach the world that “it isn’t obliged to put up with [Elon] Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich”.

Lula’s comments to the network CNN Brasil came after the supreme court voted unanimously on Monday to uphold the ban on X, which is now largely inaccessible in one of its biggest global markets.

The suspension was first ordered on Friday as a result of the company’s refusal to obey court orders requiring the removal of profiles accused of spreading disinformation and for the social network to name a local legal representative.

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    2 months ago

    His motives are clearly to watch the world burn.

    His motives are money and power. He is indifferent to if the world burns in the process.

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      He’s already got all the money and most of the power. Now his hobby is far right extremism and anarchy.

      • NotAnOnionAtAll@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        At some point accumulating more money is no longer about added utility and more like a kind of cynical game score. And musky boy is clearly chasing that high score.

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          That’s been said, and perhaps it has been true. But when you’re the richest man in the world by a significant margin, you have literally won at money and to remain competitive you need to move onto other things. Like the power of politics, and working to destabilise multiple countries at once.

      • sandbox@lemmy.world
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        I’m an anarchist, and Musk’s behaviour is the farthest possible thing from anarchy. Anarchism is all about working together to build a better world where everyone has all of their needs met, not being a selfish, caustic, aggressive asshole. Elon would have no chance of getting consensus to join any commune anywhere in the world. Unless there’s some insane libertarian commune somewhere.

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          Anarchism is all about working together to build a better world where everyone has all of their needs met,

          Hmm, I was working with the classic disctionary definition which is “a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.”

          But you’re right, anarchism does have that other meaning, so perhaps a better word would be “chaos”.

          His actions in supporting Trump in the US, promoting hate and extermist views on X globally, and encouraging civil war in the UK do all fit a chaos agenda. That’s not about money - at least, not that I can see.

          He is one of the world’s most dangerous people, however, and I don’t say that lightly. Not least because of his history of being unpredictable.

          More governments should follow Brazil’s example and push back.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        He doesn’t have all the money. I have some money, Brazilians have money. It’s not enough to have most of the money and power if there’s more he can get.

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          He has more than anyone else in the history of the world. By any scale, he’s won at money.

          • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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            2 months ago

            And yet he still wants more. It’s not enough to have most of the money, he needs to have all the money.