Elon Musk fought the law. The law appears to have won.

X, Musk’s social media platform, has backed down in its fight with the Brazilian judiciary, after complying with court orders that had blocked users in the country from accessing X.

The platform bowed to one of the key demands made by Brazil’s supreme court by appointing a legal representative in the country. It also paid outstanding fines and took down user accounts that the court had ordered to be removed on the basis that they threatened the country’s democracy, the New York Times reported.

However, the battle is not quite over. The supreme court said X had not filed the proper documentation showing that it had appointed Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao as its Brazilian representative. It gave the company five days to present documents validating her appointment.

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    2 months ago

    You know, Elon is not the one really dealing with this. It’s still employees.

    Not defending Elon or X here though. They got what they deserved.

    I wonder what goes through his employees’ heads who are still working there. Do they still even believe in the service??? Do they support their boss?

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      2 months ago

      Pretty sure anyone that’s left are the guys that bought into the Elon mystique, so they sort of got what they signed up for.

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        2 months ago

        If not… maybe they’re being compensated accordingly. We can hope.

        So if you’re a hiring manager and someone has experience working for him but doesn’t fawn over him, maybe you give them some serious credit and figure they were probably decent at their job plus they can work with anybody.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        2 months ago

        Or they have visas that don’t let them quit, or well let’s be honest, Musk is not special, doesn’t really matter which psychopath you’re working for. He’s just loud.