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Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank
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"Sir, this is First National Total Landscaping"
Coming from Musk I still think he did it on purpose just to spite the judge.
If you want to punish Musk in a meaningful way, then once the fine has been paid in full, the countdown can start. Once the same amount of time that elapsed between Twitter's first noncompliance and the fine's check cleared, then Twitter should be allowed back online. There will always be money to pay fines but they'll never get the time back. Other companies will take note.
I wonder how much this will come back to hurt the company. Musk & co. want to play dumb games? Enjoy watching all the potential Xitter users in Brazil flock to Bluesky and other platforms while your site remains in the dark.
Xitter isn’t special. People will find ways to socialize online with or without it. And the longer people go without it, the more momentum other sites will gain. Whether this stalling is deliberate or unintented doesn’t matter, the fact is they’re only hurting their own bottom line when an entire country is disengaged from their platform.
In other words, keep it up, Elon. It’s fun to see some natural consequences arise from your stupid behavior.
I wonder if it would have been brilliant if it was "Elon Musk's X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Billion instead of $5.2 Million for the Fine to Charity Organization instead of Bank"
This is why you don't fire your local team in charge of local laws and regulations, Elon.
I wonder if that insane musking urgency is in any way related to baking up local elections that will take place there some time soon
LMAO
Brilliant.
No notes.
So, there's a bank out there with some free money.
No money is free
True. To have this money we need to live in a world where social media dominates everything
Twitter. Twitter twitter twitter.
twitter is dead and a shit zombie stands where it was
Xitter. Xitter xitter xitter.
(pronounced shitter)
Also
‘He took to Twitter and tweeted a tweet.’
Should now be
‘He took to Xitter and xat a xit.’
The X being pronounced ‘sh’ every time.
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Why do they keep using younger pictures of him for these articles? Why don't they show him the way he is right now?
And if they're going to use a younger picture of him at least use the one from before he got the hair transplant:
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On behalf of Banko del Tesoro Nacional de Veracruz Y Pavon Familia Santiago Amen de Guadalupe de Saltillo, gracias, muchisisimas gracias senior Musko!
Look, I'm going to interpret this as Elon sending the money to a bank in sone other part of LatAm. Not only because Brazil's official language is Portuguese, but also because it's way funnier like this!
Si senior! En mejico todo es mejor! We can just dream a little 500million mistake for Mexicans everywhere. That makes things feel better.
*muito obrigado
This is entirely on Twitter. For your average person, sending a court-ordered fine to the wrong institution means it hasn’t been paid.
Plus, theres the fact that Musk is completely untrustworthy. After all the effort it’s taken to get Twitter to pay up, I wouldn’t restore their ability to earn income from Brazilians until the fine was secured thoroughly and correctly.
The xitter lawyers claim that there was no bank account indicated anywhere so they "had to guess" and are demanding xitter to be unlock as they paid the fine.
In other words, either they're grossly incompetent and can't read, or they're playing malicious by trying to abuse some loophole or anything to ultimately not pay the fine
EDIT: For some clarification, there is no information publicly available as to where the lawyers sent the money to, only that it wasn't the account linked to this fine, and that the lawyers are demanding the service to be restored because they claim the fine was paid, but the correct account hasn't received the money, so the fine is not paid. Alexandre de Moraes has asked Caixa Economica Federal (one of the government banks and the only one that deals with this kind of thing) to "fix" this issue so the attorney's general office can analyse the process and decide on restoring xitter's service. Elon Musk, X and the law firm representing them in Brazil are in absolutely no position to contest, much less demand, anything from the supreme court or the attorney's general office. Their actions have shown time and time again that they have no intention to play fair and regularise the issues, and they'll try what they can to create instability, animosity and general distrust against Brazil's judicial system.
The information regarding payment details for fines is ALWAYS clearly detailed on every notice, there is 0 chance that they forgot to include it or they've made a mistake and added a different account.
The more I read into this the more it looks like the law firm is being malicious instead of stupid, they're trying all that they can to not pay this fine (on behalf of X & Co.) and also create instability/animosity against the supreme court, specially considering what Musk has done and been doing for this whole case.
so they "had to guess"
Or they could ask 🤷♂️
Or they could keep reading the notice(s) and check out all the clearly stated details on who, where and how to send the fine payment
Guess when you're sending 5 million? Yeah right.
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Did Musk e-transfer it himself? How could Xitter possibly mess this up?
Found the Canadian.
I've been found out!!
I was pretty surprised to learn that Interac e-transfer or equivalent isn't commonplace everywhere.
Well, when you fire all the competent people solely so that you can brag about the number of people you fired…
NGL, if I worked at Twitter, it was probably because I get paid extremely well and there's no alternatives. So I'd absolutely phone it in. On a good day, id half ass it. And on the average day, id be copying and pasting chatGPT code directly into production servers, just enough work to not get fired, but not too much where I'll get pulled into a meeting as someone who can solve critical problems.
Gonna bet that's how every twitter employee is.
Keep in mind this is "X, the everything app". Musk expects it to be your one stop on the internet for everything, including online banking.
"Why do one thing well when you can be bad at everything instead"
- Leon Skum
Anyone who wants the internet to be like this... It's hard to describe adequately.
The idea makes me as angry as I was when I was a kid and first heard about the destruction of the library of Alexandria. It is a deep dark rage.
With proper open protocols for communication with various services such a 'everything' app could become a thing at some point.
Where I live we already have a single app (owned for a large part by the govt) we can use to log in to most official services, and any decent-size service can apply to offer log in using it. Going from that concept it really isn't too much of a stretch to an "everything app" becoming a thing.
proper open protocols
Yeah that will never, ever happen, especially if the app is successful. We would have to legally force them
Your thing and Leon's dream has one major difference. Thanks to those open protocols, multiple companies could build everything apps and compete on service, with all of them being able to access all you need.
Leon does not want Twitter to be an everything app, he wants it to be the everything app that you can't escape, owns all your data, and you can't get on with doing basic shit without paying him money.
He basically wants to monopolize everything, because he's bad at competition, because he's bad at it.
Things being "a thing" are not the same as "acceptable outcomes occurring"
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