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.

  • @[email protected]
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    172 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.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      212 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.

      • Flying SquidM
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        42 months ago

        Exactly. When it’s a choice between a decently-paying IT job for a shitty company in the U.S. or living in poverty in Mumbai, I don’t blame any of them for sticking with the job.

          • Flying SquidM
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            42 months ago

            I can’t answer that. I wasn’t being arbitrary apart from arbitrarily picking a city in India. A large number of H1-B visa holders who work at Twitter come from India.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              Actually you don’t need to. Mumbai is so expensive that the phrase “1st world prices for 3rd world conditions” applies.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 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.