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When Countries Ban Social Media

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What A Day

Daily News, News

4.6 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Brazil’s power struggle with Elon Musk over censorship on X (formerly Twitter) escalated this week, with the country’s Supreme Court upholding a ban on the platform. 40 million Brazilians lost access to the site, which had come under fire for allowing election deniers to incite an insurrection—sound familiar? Erin and Max take a look at other countries that have enacted similar social media bans, including Sri Lanka, Turkey and India. Does it stop the violence? Do tech companies actually care about free speech there? And what does it mean for the world if more governments follow Brazil’s lead and temporarily ban social platforms to pressure companies into compliance? Can governments really be trusted to regulate our online interactions? Find out on this week’s “How We Got Here.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Max, remember that thing that you in Favreau did last year when you went off social media?

0:04.5

The offline challenge, I'm still buzzing for my brief experiment in touching grass.

0:08.8

As a dog owner, I've got some bad news about what might be on the grass that you touched.

0:13.0

Okay, well you've got 40 million new offline challenge participants this past week in a

0:17.7

place with a plethora of grasses and plants to touch.

0:21.1

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has ordered the immediate suspension of the

0:24.6

social media platform X in Brazil, meaning people there can no longer access or use it.

0:30.8

The Supreme Court says it won't bring back the platform until Musk complies

0:35.0

with his orders and pays millions of dollars in fines. That was Canada's

0:39.1

CBC News on the decision to ban Twitter in Brazil. Yeah, it's a big deal.

0:43.2

Brazil is the world's second most important social media market

0:46.3

after the US.

0:47.3

That's because social media usage is really high in Brazil

0:50.0

and it's a valuable advertising market.

0:51.7

We should say the ban is not intended to be permanent.

0:54.5

It's over a regulatory dispute with the company that Brazil's Supreme Court says it wants to clear

0:58.8

up so that it can reinstate access if somebody is a big fan of perhaps Brazilian butt models this is

1:05.2

good news for them. Okay right but this is a potentially really significant

1:10.9

precedent that Brazil is setting for the world.

1:13.3

There are a lot of governments out there frustrated with the big social media companies right

1:16.8

now.

1:17.8

Frustrated with the platforms over acting as accelerants for misinformation and hate speech, frustrated with them for playing unwitting hosts to election. for what if more governments try hitting the off button once in a while to force

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