Brazil bans Musk’s X

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4.4 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

X, formerly Twitter, has been banned in Brazil after its owner Elon Musk refused to comply with court orders to suspend certain accounts.

Also on the programme: The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv comes under Russian attack again, we hear from a resident living there. And we hear about monkeys who call each other by name.

(Photo: Elon Musk, owner of X. Credit: Reuters/David Swanson)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
0:07.2	We're coming to live from our studios in London.
0:09.9	I'm Lees to set.
0:11.8	Who does Elon Musk think he is? That's what the authorities in Brazil are asking
0:17.6	after the Supreme Court ordered the suspension of Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. It's the latest twist in a
0:26.5	standoff that's been going on for months between the tech billionaire and South America's
0:32.0	biggest country where 10% of the population were posting on this platform.
0:38.0	The route began when the Supreme Court ordered the suspension of several ex-accounts belonging to supporters of Brazil's former
0:44.9	far-right President Gair Bolsonaro.
0:48.2	So is this a battle against disinformation or as Musk says for free speech.
0:54.4	Well this is what the Brazilian president Louisa Nacio Lura de
0:57.7	Silva has said.
0:59.4	The billionaire he says has to play by the rules.
1:01.4	I think you hit by that. I don't have to play my the rules. He must respect the decision of the Brazilian Supreme Court.
1:05.0	He must respect the decision of the Brazilian Supreme Court.
1:08.0	Otherwise, this country will never be sovereign.
1:11.0	This is not a country that has a society with a Mongol complex, that because
1:15.8	he's American and shouts at us, we get scared. This guy has to accept the rules of this country,
1:22.2	and if this country has made a decision
1:23.7	through the Supreme Court he has to abide by it. If it applies to me it applies to him.
1:31.2	President Lula, well let's speak to the BBC Brazil's Daniel Galas.
1:35.0	That is extraordinary that even the president has got involved.
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