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You're wrong. I'm Brazilian and this is nothing new. Brazil has always been intense in political lawfare.

Elon just thinks he can make Brazil into an example, while he knows he would get blocked in Turkey in 2 seconds.




It's not just Elon. Michael Shellenberger & TheFP for example has been reporting on this as well. You might not be impressed by the censorship happening in your country, but it's certainly worrying. I wouldn't know what to think if Canada banned Twitter.

See here: https://www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibbi-on-the-global-censorship...


While I don't agree with Brazil doing exactly what it's doing, Elon is on the wrong on this one.

The law is the law. The Supreme Court has voted unanimously. If he doesn't want to offer service there due to his morals, that's up to him.

Let's be honest, the Steve Bannon connection to Brazil is probably a factor here.


He's in the wrong morally or in terms of following the law?

When the supreme court is the victim, the prosecutor, the law maker, and the law aprover all at once, the only thing you need to do to break the law is not do as they say.


> You might not be impressed by the censorship happening in your country, but it's certainly worrying.

For him the ends justify the means. Such people are more political and emotional than truthful and rational. When the current president, Lula, was (rightfully) arrested for corruption they put a show about right to due process. But clearly they don't care about right to due process and it's just another tool in a political toolbox.


> was (rightfully) arrested

Subsequent examination of the case pointed out the judge conspired with the accusation forging evidence causing many sentences, including Lula's, to be nullified. Lula's was nullified because the judge in question didn't even have jurisdiction over the case, so the forgery of evidence wasn't even litigated. The judge was subsequently named to head the Ministry of Justice for Bolsonaro, who won the election since Lula was unable to run.


You're biased. There was collusion between the judge and prosecutors but there was no forging. Evidence is indisputable, most of the accused made deals and confessed the crimes. The process was nullified by the same authoritarian and corrupt supreme court. I recommend anyone interested to read the page on Wikipedia.

> The judge was subsequently named to head the Ministry of Justice for Bolsonaro, who won the election since Lula was unable to run.

And so? Lula recently appointed his lawyer and minister of justice to the supreme court. Of 11 supreme court judges 7 were appointed by Lula and his party. Another one is a name close to his vice-president (Moraes). And even one of the two Bolsonaro appointees is a man that made career under Roussef.


> most of the accused made deals and confessed the crimes

Under duress. Prosecutors were threatening to arrest their families if they didn’t comply.


This doesn't look like duress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbQFNp_y1F0


> while he knows he would get blocked in Turkey in 2 seconds.

I guarantee Turkey is a minuscule revenue source for Twitter and that he doesn't care. His position is that he obeys lawful orders rather than the extralegal and often obviously illegal means centrist administrations have been using to surveil and censor. Starlink may have changed direction simply because the Supreme Court confirmed the dictator's twitter ban.




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