X Turns its back on Freedom of Speech?

As part of this week's episode of "this week in social media" , we report that it is looks like X has change its mind on , not banning a handful of accounts requested by the Brazil's government!

As reported by the new York times

“In a court filing on Friday night(20th September) , the company’s lawyers said that X had complied with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court in the hopes that the court would lift a block on its site.

As well as banning the accounts in question, X has also named a new representative in Brazil, one of the reasons it has been banned in the first place.

Will this push X to becoming “more brand safe” as it is now likely to be seen, to be able to be pushed by Government to remove accounts that share “lies”, that I am sure many would agree is a good thing, but it is does bring up the question of is Elon or X standing “true” to its freedom of speech plan.

Will it stand its ground, when it is “misinformation” or “disinformation” is likely to be heightened as we move into the US election in the 8 weeks. With heightened tensions in the Middle East and Russia…

“X will still, however, have to pay its accumulated fines, which includes a recently announced penalty for continuing to offer the app in Brazil via VPN. Those fines will stretch into the millions, but getting X back online will obviously be worth more for the company in the long term. “

This comes as X is “Fairly dire financial situation” with advertiser seeing the platform as a NOT brand safe for them to run their ads on.

There has also been reports that Elon has

“As such, I do think it’s also worth noting that X has complied with similar requests in Turkey, India, and Germany, all of which have a broader value to Musk and his companies.”

So is there a double standard, or does he “liking” or “looking after” one side e.g. is likes more than the other…

This also comes as he has said, that he has no worries at removing or banning more “left” accounts.. Where is their “freedom of speech?”