On: Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil

[Vespasian]

I rather suspect that he saw bad numbers and didn't get the public support he was expecting/hoping for to challenge the law.

Probably Brazil can live without Twitter better than Twitter without Brazil

[alephnerd → Vespasian]

> Probably Brazil can live without Twitter better than Twitter without Brazil

Yep.

Meta's WhatsApp is the critical social media app in Brazil (and most large countries excluding US, Canada, China, Thailand, SK, JP, and Vietnam)

[bdjsiqoocwk → alephnerd]

It's not "critical". If Whatsapp vanished tomorrow it would get replaced by the next one so fast it would make your head spin. Not saying I can guess which one it would be, but one would win and people would carrying on with their lives just fine.