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Brazil's Supreme Court has unanimously uh voted to uphold a nationwide ban on Elon musk's act the social platform was
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suspended in Brazil late last week over concerns about disinformation and X's refusal to appoint a local legal
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representative elan's other companies are also impacted SpaceX has moved to evacuate workers from Brazil it's quite
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dramatic of them um and warned employees against traveling to the country starlink initially said they would defy
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the ban but later backtracked and is now complying starlink is is a division of SpaceX by the way um talk a little bit
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about this uh do you think the ban is Justified it will set a precedent for other uh countries deal with Elon now
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I'm going to tell say two things before we go because the Washington Post had the single stupidest editorial that I've
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seen of this you might agree with Elon on this one but he goes around the world and does censors when certain countries
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ask him to and doesn't when others do so his whole Free Speech Warrior thing is a
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Canard and and I I will not accept anyone saying uh that he's he could a broken clock could be right twice twice
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a day but in this case when he's in India or turkey he completely cooperates and and actually X is one of the bigger
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Cooperators with autocratic uh governments in in censoring so his excuse here is because he doesn't like
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the government uh but go ahead you just stole all my thunder I think you're exactly right your point is he's
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incredibly cynical because when erdoan or Modi or any other autocrat says I'd rather you just not do this he's like no
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problem no problem so this he's totally inconsistent here and to be clear what they asked him to do was they asked him
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um to appoint a legal representative to deal with request to deal with requests to take down accounts allegedly involved
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in spreading political misinformation they didn't they didn't mandate they take it down they're like we just want
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somebody to deal with and here's the thing well it's because they're scared about them being arrested because you
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know they're arrested in other parts of the world um this is China though come on Brazil is not going to arrest the
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representative from from X they're just not going to do it and that's that's the
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reason that's his excuse just so you're aware I'm just but I was down there I think he'd have a solid case in court
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but to your point it's just totally inconsistent and I don't know how he behaves in other countries is relevant
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in a Brazilian court but here's the thing I was in Brazil when this happened and this is pulse marketing I talked to
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quite a few people at this conference I went to the XP conference that that's 50,000 people there and no one we're
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talking more about it than they are you know what they don't care they use WhatsApp they use Instagram they move to
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they move to um Blue Sky a lot of the blue sky and thread saw big especially blue sky but it's just not it's just not
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a relevant it's a platform that is either not used or is easily substitutable so it wasn't like people
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are running around angry at the government that they don't have their Twitter I think this is this is part of
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a more meta Trend and it's the following whether it's the CE of telegram being arrested
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whether it's Google being found guilty of Monopoly maintenance uh whether it's a a doj
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reaching out to Nvidia people have just decided they're fed up with a distinct set of rules and behavior for someone
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who is in technology versus the rest of us or technology firms and I think this is just a continuation of that strategy
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and his his lack of concern around I don't know if he's trying to be brilliant here and get a lot of press
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and say I'm a free speech Warrior I'm not afraid to take on Brazil but he's gotten into if you were a board you'd be
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say why are you get personalizing this and getting into a pissing match with a judge in Brazil how does that serve
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shareholder value he also acts like he also treated as if he was going to invade Brazil but uh this is I thought
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was the best quote it was Brazilian president let me pronounce this correctly Louise ignasio Lula D Silva
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Lulu um he said the Brazilian just Lulu uh Lula Lula the Brazilian justice system may have uh given an important
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signal that the world is not obliged to put up with musk's extreme rightwing anything anything sorry anything goes
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just because he is Rich I thought he that was a perfect sentence as far as I thought but the fear here or the bigger
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concern in my view is what happens when starlink which is a superior product is uh contracted engaged and used to
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download important data uh and basically operate or be the backbone of say Hospital Systems in RI
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and something like this happens and I wouldn't put put it B must to say you know what I'm going to turn off starlink
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and oh if that means a bunch of Hospital systems and your aircraft can't land so
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be it yeah and this is this is the danger when one person Aggregates too much wealth or power I think the I think
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the leverage he's going to have quite frankly around starlink is much more frightening and the fact that he well
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they though the country threatened to take over the land well the cash right a bunch of uh no no not just the cash but
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there's installations in Brazil that allow it to work better and they were just going to take over they have
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leverage over him right now because of n starlink assets at some point I think he's going to have leverage over Nations
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because of starlink oh you know they have to have installations on the ground they can always take those over you know
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I I think it's it's it's stupid that he's fighting it's he should sell his product and stop politicizing everything
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that's my feeling is he's got a great product stop involving himself in every he's fighting with Venezuela he's
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fighting with Brazil he's sucking up to India and turkey like he's fighting he fought with Ukraine but then didn't
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fight Ukraine he should get the out of foreign policy and just sell his stuff that's my feeling um but he's not
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going to do that because his role in the potential Donald Trump Administration is
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becoming more clear Trump is set to share plans for government efficiency commission that Elon recommended in a
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speech at the economic Club of New York this week according to the Wall Street Journal Elon wayen on X saying I look
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forward to to serving America if the opportunity arises no pay no title No recognition is needed what a Croc of
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all he wants is recognition if he had been hugged more as a child we'd all be in a better position with this guy um
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you know he's he's going to he's going to fix our government which is is so full of conflicts of interest I don't
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even want to say he's got defense contracts he's got space contracts he's got uh car you know he should not be he
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could be on a commission but to have any real power would be Terri so what I don't get is he claims that he wants to
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do away with all subsidies does that mean he's going to give a half a billion dollars back to the government for the
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subsidies he's received I don't this is also cynical and what what is the strategy here he's going to lay off 80%
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of government employees and not pay them Severance the legally obligated Severance is he going to accuse
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employees working in our civil service and our defense department uh incorrectly of being sex criminals like
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what is it mean when you're going to ask him to help with efficiency I just I this is
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it's sort of typical of both of them I think it's just a gigantic press release um I I mean it we it's like it's like
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shocking but not surprising this it's like nothing surprises me anymore regardless of how ridiculous it is these
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two are linked together in a way that is really not going to be good for either of them I think personally I think it'll
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it'll end in Disaster by the way one more thing before I forget um he Elon did Tucker Carlson did a heinous
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interview with a uh with a historian who not Hitler yeah Hitler apologist and Elon retweeted it and then promptly took
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it down um pretty quickly and let me tell you why this is the kind of that gets you banned in Europe because
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Germany everywhere else I I know there was a big group of people from the right that won in Germany but this stuff is no
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no kidden in Europe on this stuff and so if he wants to get in a fight now he wants to get in a land war with Europe
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now that's where it's headed so you know this this guy is going to suck all the the away from Trump which I think is
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where they're going to fight