I’m thankful for Sunshine for posting this. She’s a real one!
And I’m also thankful for those who have upvoted this post instead of some generic US politics one. Gives some very needed diversity to the front page.
Proceeds to bring up the US anyway
couldn’t they just turn off brazil? they do this to myanmar all the time
Makes sense for any country tondo this because as has become clear, it doesn’t matter if you’re a democracy or a dictatorship, if you are liking musk and face or not, X and meta can and will destabilize your country and once it happens, there is nothing you can do about it except banning the entire site, which will be an unpopular choice.
Musk especially has shown to be all about himself and he’ll just push whatever political right wing party to destabilize a country.
Fuck x, fuck Facebook
Calling Twitter “X”??? One should not.
If countries don’t start taking modern warfare seriously everyone is going to end up in far right authoritarian regimes that won’t accept election results. Bolsonaro would love to come back and never leave.
Common Brazil W
based lula
not always considering bolsonaro existed and was a tech bros wet dream
Double entendre: “eu” means “me” in Portuguese
Nice
It’s a rare W, but a welcome one.
Eu isn’t doing shit tho.
Hve you heard of GDPR? USB-C mandate? Right to repair?
Right to repair? Repair what? Surely not a new iphone.
Do you seriously think that meta cares for your personal data if youre European? No? Then how come they are allowed to operate?
The right to repair laws will take effect in (at the latest) July 30 2026.
Manufactures have until then to decide what to do. Maybe Apple will just straight pull out of EU or comply by then.
It’s a painfully slow process but better than not even trying like all other states on this planet.
Edit: source https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/directive-repair-goods_en
The EU fined Meta multiple billions. You can always do more, but it’s a start
How is that a start if their services are still profitable and poisonous to every mind exposed to them?
And the lawsuits keep pouring in.
dont let perfection stop progress
Good. At least someone is saying something. More people and companies should voice their opinion.
Did not expect Brazil to be the hero we need right now, but I’m here for it.
Brazil has at least some history of fighting against tech giant’s disrespect of regularions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil
Lula be right more often than not. Oops I mean left.
It’s some high judge so I think they are independent from the government but I don’t know their system well.
Yeah and I wasn’t expecting that one either. Sounds like I should start to, though.
Brasil, please ban facebook. First twitter then facebook. Fuck the gready corporate assholes. Someone needs to make a first step and create a precedent, we need this. Social media will be (already is) the downfall of our civilization.
Sadly I don’t think it will happen since we are extremely dependent on whatsapp because our SMS sucked ass since the inception, messages were costly and always arrived late.
Should get off of centralized services anyway. They could make it so that whatever app you used you could send messages to any other. Like with phone service providers, email or Lemmy etc.
People in general are too stupid to integrate these solutions in their daily lives, you should know better.
I meant countries should enforce encrypted intercommunication between apps by law.
A countries communications shouldn’t be tied to any one app. It’s becoming a national security issue and giving too much power to foreign corporations.
Maybe different features between users of the same app so that there is choice, but still having that fallback so someone on one app can still have secure communication with users of another app.
Currently the situation is like if you needed Gmail to email people with Gmail and Outlook to email people with Outlook.
Is there any way to hide embedded images on lemmy?
These are pretty annoying.
as a PSA, before 🫵you post images on the internet, it’s important to put alt text whenever you can. Some people need screen readers to acess the web, and it can give context to help understand it. Give a good description, and if there’s text on it, include that in the alt text. Acessibility is important!
Use Lynx browser, if that’s even still a thing?
EDIT: It is!
Always one of the first things I install with a new Arch Linux install! Not because it’s useful or anything, I’m not delusional, but because it’s hella cool
A modern use case: I like RSS in my terminal so I use newsboat but hate it opening firefox and swapping me out of the terminal when I want to read more. So I have it use lynx instead.
I also have a computer without a DE that can browse the web (lynx), look at pictures (JP2a), watch movies (I don’t recall the name of the program but it converts the video to ASCII), edit word docs (take your pick), and send email (mail).
I’ve always preferred w3m or links over lynx.
Meta’s anti-LGBT rules are closely knit to their ending the fact-checking: It is science denialism and linked to racism and vaccine skepticism.
Homosexuality and gender identity are not considered mental illnesses, Sex is not a binary, and Race is not connected to intelligence.
Bigots never liked science on these three, and now they use political power to impose their narrative.
Meta never moderated such discourse. Nor reddit nor twitter nor youtube. There was no censorship to end here. What this is, it is a free pass to punch down trans and gay people. It is incitement to violence, and Zuckerberg and Musk must go to the gallows for it.
Don’t get me started on the toxic harassment these platforms have allowed against African and Carribean reparation activists, how they have destroyed the lives of feminists, and how they have named all Palestinians terrorists.
At this point race realists and gender essentialists have ensured political and technological control of the narrative.
There is no room for debating sealioning trolls on this one. If they don’t understand the social dynamics against gender/sex/minorities at this moment, they are no better than brownshirts.
It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.
It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.
I agree. As a mod on LW myself I have to wonder how far the admin are willing to go to enforce such a policy. Are they really going to start removing mods for banning trolls and bigots‽
*Edit: oops, I got the posts mixed up. I thought this was the post about lemmy.world’s new policy on debating trolls instead of banning them.
Brazil needs to solve their high homicide rate before demanding things from Meta. Serving the people instead of being petty.
Let’s talk about their homicide rate. In 2022, the country with the largest number of trans people murdered was Brazil.
Do you think that a platform that now allows open anti-trans bigotry will make that problem better or worse?
why?
You know, countries can do more than one thing at a time
Brazil has rampant poverty, high homicide rates, and corruption. Meta is the least of their problem. Get to work…
Yeah, cause those are totally related…somehow…really, I promise!
What the fuck are you smoking??? Please don’t share. Seriously.
You need to solve your downvote rate before posting.
Your fallacies-to-words ratio is outstanding.
Brazil’s based, now?
Enjoy it while it lasts. We like to immitate the US so in 2026 it’s very likely that we’ll elect a reactionary idiot again.
If you ban social media companies that don’t regulate their shit you won’t.
If we ban social media companies* we won’t.
Privately owned social media is a tool of media manipulation. You can change the weights of some inscrutable algorithm and boost exposure to political ideologies that you want while no one can truly make a case against you, “it’s just the algorithm” they say. There’s no scenario where they should be allowed to exist in a sovereign country.
According to the extrajudicial notice, this allows users to associate sexual identity to “a mental illness or abnormality” and allows “the defense of professional limitations based on gender.”
Why does anyone associate with this site. It’s beyond me.
I feel like it’s just boomers at this point
Facebook maybe, but I’m dumbfounded by how many people in my life are actively using Instagram.
